James Joyce

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"His education had been classical and the classical education meant absolutely nothing to him."

"Consider the manners of the inhabitants of the planet called the earth, especially of such of them as have mixed with each other."

"That's the very essence of romance, that it lasts an instant and changes everything."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"He had known neither the beauty of control nor the beauty of abandon."

"The man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"I wanted really to leave the room quietly and go home."

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

"The moment we have come to some definite knowledge and not before, may one hold another thing ready to show that."

"In the raw wind that sweeps Ghostland their cries have lost poignancy at last, ceased as the cry of seabirds to the landsman."

"He wanted to cry faintly, to let his heart out of his body but he could not."

"Her eyes seemed to regard him with a kind of pitying wonder and pity."

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

"All his life he had admired rectitude of conduct. Now it seemed to him the very thing that prevented you from doing anything."

"The years, the years teach much which the days never knew."

"The universe is a dark and immense world."

"Every age has its own art form, every age has its own music."

"The figure of Stephen Dedalus loomed on his horizon."

"I have gathered the wind under my wings."

"He felt the strange power of the world entering him."

"Even if I am not, at least I am."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"I discovered the art of getting men to fight one another instead of fighting me."

"He sang dumb doggerel in a dead language that was no language."

"Good friend, come out a minute until we talk."

"Do you know what a pissabed is?"

"The brimming bowl."

"Nous who can say nought in English but uses its papers for his daily need."