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.
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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Love loves to love love.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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