James Joyce Quotes, Life Quotes, Reality Quotes

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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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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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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