A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEI am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
More James Joyce Quotes
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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 movement like a cork upon a tide.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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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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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
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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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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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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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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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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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