The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCEWipe your glasses with what you know.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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There’s many a true word spoken in jest.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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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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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Places remember events.
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