Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCEMen are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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.
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