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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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Let my country die for me.
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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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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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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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