To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCEYour battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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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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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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