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.
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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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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