History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
JAMES JOYCEA man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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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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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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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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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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