James Joyce quotes - page 5

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more. (James Joyce)
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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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
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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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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.
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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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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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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
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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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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. (James Joyce)
Love between man and man 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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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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He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
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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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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses.
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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
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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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I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.
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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. (James Joyce)
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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Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
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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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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
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