4 Quotes by James Joyce about travel

  • Author James Joyce
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    Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.

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  • Author James Joyce
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    It is dangerous to abandon one's own country,but it is more dangerous still to return to it, for then your fellow country-men, if they can, will drive a knife into your heart.

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    He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life's journey they seemed weary already.

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    There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! his heart seemed to cry. Evening would deepen above the sea, night fall upon the plains, dawn glimmer before the wanderer and show him strange fields and hills and faces. Where?

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