It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
JAMES JOYCEChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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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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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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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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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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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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