5 quotations found:

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and
are the portals of discovery.

Source: Ulysses
Date: 2001

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the
reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated
conscience of my race.

Source: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (last lines)
Date: 2001

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had
begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling
obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his
journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over
Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the
treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward,
softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon
every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay
thckly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the
little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the
snow falling faintly throughout the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

Source: The Dead (short story/novella)
Date: 2002

...and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow
houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geramiums and catuses and
Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountian yes when I put the
rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and
how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as
another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked
me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around
him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes
and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Source: Ulysses (closing words)
Date: 2002

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Source: Ulysses
Date: 2006