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01c. 1911 AD

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce / quote

02c. 1911 AD

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce / quote

03c. 1911 AD

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

James Joyce / quote

04c. 1911 AD

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

James Joyce / quote

05c. 1911 AD

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

James Joyce / quote