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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

~James Joyce

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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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.

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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.

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

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: February 2nd, 1882

Died: January 13th, 1941

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