A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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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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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Welcome, 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.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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