QUOTES by James Joyce
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“Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.”
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“It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything.”
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“Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
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“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning.”
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“Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.”
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“What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?”
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“Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.”
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“An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.”
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“Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own.”
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“The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.”
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“he said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the tea...”
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“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
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“I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
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“Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?”
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“I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
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“What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?”
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“What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.”
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“I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description”
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“It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.”
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“Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.”
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“For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.”
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“ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea”
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“It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God could do that.”
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“That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. It will calm my heart. My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.”
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“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.”
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“His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.”
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“I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.”
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