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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Mistakes

3.5 · 21 votes · 150 reads

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

Nations

4.1 · 60 votes

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Faith

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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

Religion

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's sou

Love

4.8 · 47 votes

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James Joyce

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
4.5 · 23 votes · 26 reads
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Art and Culture
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
3.8 · 57 votes · 140 reads
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Society
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as i
3.2 · 17 votes · 38 reads
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Art and Culture
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
3.8 · 6 votes · 174 reads
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Virtues
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he
4.2 · 28 votes · 30 reads
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Society
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
4.0 · 12 votes · 10 reads
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Nature
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
4.7 · 51 votes · 154 reads
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Society
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
3.9 · 54 votes · 197 reads
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Art and Culture
When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and
4.2 · 26 votes · 140 reads
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Various
While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
3.1 · 21 votes · 165 reads
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Various
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
3.1 · 48 votes · 197 reads
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Society
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
4.1 · 14 votes · 194 reads
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