James Joyce Quotes

As you are now so once were we.

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Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

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Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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Have read little and understood less.

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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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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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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