The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Love loves to love love.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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