James Joyce

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

  Ulysses (1922), Ch. 2: NestorIn context

  • History

• (Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

  Ulysses (1922) (243)

  • Failure
  • Genius

• Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903)In context

  • Art

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy