QUOTES by James Joyce
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“between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odour.”
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“He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.”
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“The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”
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“When I find a lady who is content with her own picture I will send a bouquet to the Pope”
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“I fear more than that the chemical action which would be set up in my soul by a false homage to a symbol behind which are massed twenty centuries of authority and veneration.”
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“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.”
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“But he was not sick there. He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”
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“What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?”
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“What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist?”
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“Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
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“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”
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“...her who whose beauty is not like earthly beauty, dangerous to look upon, but like the morning star which is its emblem, bright and musical.”
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“It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture.”
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“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.”
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“The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.”
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“I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.”
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“He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold.”
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“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
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“—What is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners.”
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“He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage.”
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“A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars.”
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“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.”
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“For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I’ll slip away before they’re up. They’ll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.”
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“Begin to forget it. It will remember itself from every sides, with all gestures in each our word. Today’s truth, tomorrow’s trend.”
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“Knock knock. War's where! Which war? The Twwinns. Knock knock. Woos without! Without what? An apple. Knock knock.”
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“it wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture”
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“Shakespeare is the happy huntingground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
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“Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words.”
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“I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse.”
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