The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEA woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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 mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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