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.
JAMES JOYCEWhy is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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