80+ James Joyce Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
JAMES JOYCE

Fall Success
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
JAMES JOYCE

Artist Beautiful Creation
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
JAMES JOYCE

Laughter Life Love Thinking
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes Heart Himself Life Past Story
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
JAMES JOYCE

Curves Emotion Government Intellectual Men
What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
JAMES JOYCE

Ourselves Writing
Shut your eyes and see.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes One Liner See
Wipe your glasses with what you know.
JAMES JOYCE

Glasses Wipe Yourself
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
JAMES JOYCE

Civilization Creation
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
JAMES JOYCE

Charm Lose Make Up Woman
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
JAMES JOYCE

Age Glory Passion World
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
JAMES JOYCE

Desire Love World
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
JAMES JOYCE

Fantasy Fiction
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
JAMES JOYCE

Eyes Heart Love Mad
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
JAMES JOYCE

Flower People
You can still die when the sun is shining.
JAMES JOYCE

Death Shine Sun Yourself
And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
JAMES JOYCE

Fools Herself Name
Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
JAMES JOYCE

End Time
Life is too short to read a bad book.
JAMES JOYCE

Book Life Reading
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
JAMES JOYCE

Children Education Love Punishment
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
JAMES JOYCE

Availability Drinking Masturbation Sex
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE

Greatness Humble Life Teacher
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
JAMES JOYCE

Hypocrite People
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.
JAMES JOYCE

Brother Life Men Ourselves Walk Wife
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCE

Fall Light Music
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCE

Future Mindset Past
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
JAMES JOYCE

Family Love Mom World

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