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

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Topic

Learning from mistakes Mistakes Genius

Speaker

Stephen Dedalus

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 2, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 9.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

Dubliners

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James Joyce
Source
A Painful Case Dubliners
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Another quote from the 1920s

The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that our most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Topic
Inflection points
Speaker
Hildebrant

Author

Andre Gide
Source
The Counterfeiters
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 16.

Another quote about Mistakes

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Topic
Mistakes Forgiveness

Author

Alexander Pope
Source
An Essay on Criticism
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1711 1710s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, l. 526.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, I. 526.