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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

James Joyce

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCE

Men Mind Understand
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
JAMES JOYCE

Balance Happiness Hunt Lost Mind
Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCE

Book Life Reading
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
JAMES JOYCE

Children Education Love Punishment
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
JAMES JOYCE

Availability Drinking Masturbation Sex
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Greatness Humble Life Teacher
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE

Fall Light Music
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE

Atheist Philosophy Religion
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCE

Himself Possible World
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 JOYCE

Existence Human Language Oneself
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE

Discover Genius Life Man Mistake Spiritual
Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
JAMES JOYCE

Forever Ruin Time
There’s no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCE

Friendship Old
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCE

Adventure Home Reality Reflection
In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCE

Philosophy Space
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife

What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

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