James Joyce Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Loyal Quotes

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.

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Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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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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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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When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

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