32 Quotations by James Joyce
- 1. A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- 2. A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
- 3. A nation is the same people living in the same place.
- 4. All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inc ...
- 5. Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
- 6. Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover ...
- 7. He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the ...
- 8. History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- 9. History, Stephen said, "is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
- 10. I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring ...
- 11. I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Pa ...
- 12. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer be ...
- 13. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing ...
- 14. Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most dif ...
- 15. Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can ...
- 16. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- 17. Mr. Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults ...
- 18. No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
- 19. Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of ...
- 20. Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sen ...
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