They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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Let my country die for me.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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