807 Quotes by James Joyce

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    Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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    A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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    Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.

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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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    Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.

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    When the shy star goes forth in heaven / All maidenly, disconsolate, / Hear you amid the drowsy even / One who is singing by your gate. / His song is softer than the dew / And he is come to visit you.

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    Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts secrets weary of their tyranny, tyrants willing to be dethroned.

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    By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself

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    Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

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