Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Love loves to love love.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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