The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCEAn Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Love loves to love love.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
JAMES JOYCE