Shut your eyes and see.
JAMES JOYCEThe object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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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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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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Thought is the thought of thought.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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