QUOTES by James Joyce
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“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”
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“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”
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“The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.”
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“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
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“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”
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“Love between man and woman is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
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“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”
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“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”
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“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!”
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“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”
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“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”
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“Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.”
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“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”
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“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”
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“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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“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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“While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give. ”
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“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”
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“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
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“What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?”
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“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.”
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“Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo”
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“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
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“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
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“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
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“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.”
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“Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.
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