Irish - Novelist | February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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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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