Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCEI wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
More James Joyce Quotes
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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Let my country die for me.
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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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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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