Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Wisdom
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Quotes by James Joyce
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Wisdom
I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
Love
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Hope
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Wisdom
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
Wisdom
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Life
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Wisdom
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
Love
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Wisdom
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Wisdom
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Happiness
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Life
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
Wisdom
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Success
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Wisdom
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Wisdom
The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
Wisdom
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Wisdom
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Love
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Life
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Wisdom
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