Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
More James Joyce Quotes
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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