And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
JAMES JOYCEShut your eyes and see.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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