What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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