The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Let my country die for me.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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