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More Quotes by James Joyce
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
Love loves to love love.
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.