James Joyce quote about genius from Ulysses - A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
 James Joyce, Ulysses (1922). copy citation

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Author James Joyce
Source Ulysses
Topic genius discovery mistakes
Date 1922
Language English
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Weblink https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm

Context

“John Eglinton looked in the tangled glowworm of his lamp.
—The world believes that Shakespeare made a mistake, he said, and got out of it as quickly and as best he could.
—Bosh! Stephen said rudely. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Portals of discovery opened to let in the quaker librarian, softcreakfooted, bald, eared and assiduous.
—A shrew, John Eglinton said shrewdly, is not a useful portal of discovery, one should imagine.” source

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