Absence, the highest form of presence.
JAMES JOYCEHis 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.
More James Joyce Quotes
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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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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