James Joyce Quotes, Morning Quotes, Tired Quotes

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?

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

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

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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Wipe your glasses with what you know.

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Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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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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What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

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A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

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

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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