The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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