Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
JAMES JOYCEBetter pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
More James Joyce Quotes
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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Love loves to love love.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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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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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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