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Love Quotes by James Joyce

44 Love quotes by James Joyce

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A heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide, showing love’s lively, playful side. Joyce’s lines also compare love to warm soil that nurtures an exotic plant, and they note that true words can be spoken in jest. He reminds us that love can be brief, while deeper pledges may last a lifetime.

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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

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Love, yes. Word known to all men.

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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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Love loves to love love.

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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Places remember events.

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

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

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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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“How beautiful must be a soul in the state of grace when God looked upon it with love!”

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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

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

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“There's music along the river For Love wanders there”

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“There's music along the river For Love wanders there, Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair.”

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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his…

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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a…

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“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender…

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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…

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“He remembered well, with the curious patient memory of the celibate, the first casual caresses her dress, her breath, her fingers had…

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself…

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“Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very…

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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up…

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Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies…

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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…

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“Wait till the honeying of the lune, love! Die eve, little eve, die! We see that wonder in your eye. We'll meet…

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Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is…

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You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to…

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“Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair beside the bed. He…

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“I wish some man or other would take me sometime when hes there and kiss me in his arms theres nothing like…

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“Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the days beyond recall. She thought she understood. She would…

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“A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed…

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“Coffined thoughts around me, in mummycases, embalmed in spice of words. Thoth, god of libraries, a birdgod, moonycrowned. And I heard the…

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“Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has…

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“But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love, since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love…

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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

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