To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
JAMES JOYCEThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
More James Joyce Quotes
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Let my country die for me.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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