In the particular is contained the universal.
JAMES JOYCEMistakes are the portals of discovery.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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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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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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