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More Quotes by James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.