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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
― James Joyce
Important
Prepared
Effort
Modern
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
― James Joyce
Future
Flows
Eternal
Present
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
― James Joyce
Mistakes
Portals
Discovery
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
― James Joyce
Mind
Exactly
Give
Put
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
― James Joyce
Absence
Highest
Presence
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Shut your eyes and see.
― James Joyce
Shut
Eyes
See
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
― James Joyce
People
Trample
Flowers
Embrace
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
― James Joyce
Fall
Rise
Must
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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.
― James Joyce
Living
Sceptical
Humanity
Hospitality
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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.
― James Joyce
Opponents
Establish
Conscience
Rather
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
― James Joyce
Lived
Laughed
Loved
Left
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
― James Joyce
Battles
Material
Fought
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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.
― James Joyce
Tomorrow
Future
Establish
Yesterday
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Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.
― James Joyce
Build
Mansions
Eternity's
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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.
― James Joyce
Life
Meeting
Ourselves
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
― James Joyce
Jackass
Roads
Ideas
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
― James Joyce
Through
Future
Plunges
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
― James Joyce
Learn
Humble
Great
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Love loves to love love.
― James Joyce
Love
Life
Funny Love
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
― James Joyce
Beware
Horns
Smile