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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce
People
Living
Nation
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce
Day
Future
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
James Joyce
Men
Emotion
Intellect
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
James Joyce
Art
Pleasure
Schools
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce
Ireland
Old
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
James Joyce
First
Ireland
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.
James Joyce
Immortality
Will
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
Legal
Age
Mother
Father
Fiction
Name
Will
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce
Fear
Words
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Discovery
Mistakes
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
James Joyce
World
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
America
Columbus
Posterity
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
James Joyce
Soul
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James Joyce
Heart
Eyes
Will
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
Friendship
Love
Man
Woman