A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCESentimentality is unearned emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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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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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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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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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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