James Joyce Quotes, Pain Quotes, Flames Quotes

In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

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It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

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The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

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Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

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The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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