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.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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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 woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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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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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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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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