People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCEMen are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Let my country die for me.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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