QUOTES by James Joyce
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“Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe.”
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“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained...”
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“...the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”
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“But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.”
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“Don't eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.”
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“But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
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“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.”
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“i know by heart the places he likes to saale, delvan first and duvlin after, by dredgerous lands and devious delts”
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“They listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine.”
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He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.”
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“Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.”
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“First you must take your degree. Set that before you as your first aim. Then, little by little, you will see your way. I mean in every sense, your way in life and in thinking.”
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“In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred.”
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“He would fade into something impalpable under her eyes and then in a moment he would be transfigured. Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.”
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“obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days.”
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“I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.”
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“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.”
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“She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”
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“however, he brought to mind instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to blame but themselves.”
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“I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you.”
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“Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse...”
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“He imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve.”
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“Bite my laughters, drink my tears. Pore into me, volumes, spell me stark and spill me swooning, I just don’t care what my thwarters think.”
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“We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land.”
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“The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town.”
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“School and home seem to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.”
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“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”
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“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”
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