Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEWhat’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Love loves to love love.
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Let my country die for me.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into 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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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