More from James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Ulysses (1922), Ch. 2: NestorIn context- Ulysses (1922) (243)
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
More about experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
