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Places remember events.

Places remember events.

James Joyce
Events, Remember
James Joyce, Phillip F. Herring (1972). “Joyce's Ulysses notesheets in the British Museum”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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

James Joyce
Life, Spiritual, Mistake
Ulysses (1922)

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

James Joyce
Inspirational, Life, Running
James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

James Joyce
Children, Punishment, Educated

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

James Joyce
Truth, History, Trying
Ulysses (1922)

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

James Joyce
Men, Curves, Lines

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
Writing, Way, Arguing
James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

James Joyce
Fall, Triumph
James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.199, Collector's Library

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

James Joyce
Proud

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

James Joyce
Hands, Water, I Can
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.368, e-artnow

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

James Joyce
Time
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.104, e-artnow