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.
JAMES JOYCEWhat’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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