To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
JAMES JOYCEFall if you will, but rise you must.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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