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On January 13, 1941 -- this week in history -- Irish novelist and poet James Joyce died. Today, we're remembering his enduring voice and contribution with eight key quotations.

Dubliners (1914)

"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

"When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."

"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture."

Ulysses (1922)

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

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

Finnegans Wake (1939)

"'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry"