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Life Quotes by James Joyce
- White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
- He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
- A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power…
- To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
- A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
- The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
- 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,…
- 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…
- [A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.
- I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe,…
- Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She…
- Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being…
- 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…
- Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
- Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated…
- Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But…
- This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
- Love loves to love love.
- The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
- 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…
- Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
- Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships…
- Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
- It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle