James Joyce

"To understand a culture is to read its stories."

"The power to change begins with the power to imagine."

"Wisdom is knowing what cannot be known."

"Every ending is also a beginning in disguise."

"The greatest gift one can offer is one's authentic self."

"Art is the evidence that life is worth living."

"To love is to accept the imperfections of another."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Language is the most beautiful of all things."

"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works."

"I use the word 'beauty' in the largest possible sense."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"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."

"Write your name on your heart rather than on marble."

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

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep, you may wonder if life has meaning."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

"Loneliness is the human condition."

"His mind was a prism through which all human experience was refracted."

"Love is patient, love is kind, and love is what we must cultivate."

"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded, and every atom in your left hand probably came from a different star."

"The beauty of literature lies in its ability to reveal human truth."

"In the particular is contained the universal."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"The force of the world is constantly changing."

"Art should surprise and challenge the comfortable."

"Words are the coins of literature."

"Consciousness is the condition of human existence."

"The dead know only one thing: they know not to trust the living."