His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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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.
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