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 JOYCEWelcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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.
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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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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Love loves to love love.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Let my country die for me.
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