The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEBeware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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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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