What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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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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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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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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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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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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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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