A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEThere’s no friends like the old friends.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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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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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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Places remember events.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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