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.
JAMES JOYCEA man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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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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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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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 am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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