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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

James Joyce

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

James Joyce

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

James Joyce

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

James Joyce

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

James Joyce

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

James Joyce

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

James Joyce

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

James Joyce