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 JOYCEThe heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shut your eyes and see.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE






