The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCETo live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Places remember events.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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