The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

James Joyce

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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

James Joyce

giving-back mind giving

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

encouraging mistake inspiring

Absence, the highest form of presence.

James Joyce

highest form absence

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

James Joyce

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

James Joyce

eternal flow past

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

James Joyce

passion work inspirational

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

James Joyce

positive-thinking love life

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

quality humanity age

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

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As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

James Joyce

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

truth trying history

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

James Joyce

ifs fall

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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cactus flower people

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

James Joyce

spiritual mistake life

Places remember events.

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events remember

Love loves to love love.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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doe spring art

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

wife brother men

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

James Joyce

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