A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEHis heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
More James Joyce Quotes
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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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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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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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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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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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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You can still die when the sun is shining.
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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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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCE