To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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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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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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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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