Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCEHe found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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