The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEI care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Places remember events.
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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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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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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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