Fall if you will, but rise you must.
JAMES JOYCEIt is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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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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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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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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