A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Quote by James Joyce
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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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James Joyce Quotes
- History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.
- History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
- Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
- A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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