Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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Shut your eyes and see.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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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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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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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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Love loves to love love.
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