Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCEThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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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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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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