James Joyce quotes - page 4

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. (James Joyce)
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. View quote
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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor. View quote
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Welcome, O life! 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. View quote
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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. View quote
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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. View quote
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. View quote
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. View quote
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Too excited to be genuinely happy. View quote
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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? View quote
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You can still die when the sun is shining. (James Joyce)
Have read little and understood less. View quote
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Let my country die for me. View quote
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As you are now so once were we. View quote
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. View quote
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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back. View quote
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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. View quote
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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. View quote
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. View quote
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I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. View quote
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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds. (James Joyce)
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. View quote
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. View quote
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end. View quote
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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction? View quote
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