Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEAll things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Places remember events.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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