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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

James Joyce
Past, Flow, Eternal
Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

James Joyce
Past, Mindfulness, Plunge
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.387, e-artnow

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

James Joyce
Heart, Eye, Past
James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool. I could do nothing. I hear nothing but your voice. I am like a fool hearing you call me 'Dear.' I offended two men today by leaving them coolly. I wanted to hear your voice, not theirs. When I am with you I leave aside my contemptuous, suspicious nature. I wish I felt your head on my shoulder.

James Joyce
Past, Men, Two
James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

James Joyce
Past, Long, Castles
James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.835, Delphi Classics

Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives.

James Joyce
Believe, Past, Years
James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.66, First Avenue Editions

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