The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEThink you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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