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 JOYCEA man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCE