Wipe your glasses with what you know.
JAMES JOYCEOne great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
More James Joyce Quotes
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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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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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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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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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
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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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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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