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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

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

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce