A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEHe wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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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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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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Let my country die for me.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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