QUOTES by James Joyce
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“And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.”
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“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.”
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“There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.”
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“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.”
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“I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.”
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“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.”
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“Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!”
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“My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
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“And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.”
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“In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality.”
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“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails”
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“There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them within him. He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.”
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“A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..”
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“Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in his look. His eyes burned into her as though they would search her through and through, read her very soul.”
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“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”
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“One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.”
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“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.”
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“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”
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“He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.”
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“In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 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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“In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.”
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“We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh”
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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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“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”
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“Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”
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“I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.”
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“It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.”
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“[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.”
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“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”
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“[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”
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“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”
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