The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCEMen are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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One 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.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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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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In the particular is contained the universal.
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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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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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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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