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Danh ngôn của James Joyce (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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.
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.