A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEAll things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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