James Joyce quotes - page 8

Then all at once I see it and I know at once what it is: epiphany. (James Joyce)
End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. View quote
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But there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. View quote
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves. View quote
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Me. And me now. View quote
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This triviality made him think of collecting many such moments together in a book of epiphanies. By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. View quote
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He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. View quote
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First we feel. Then we fall. View quote
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad. View quote
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The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. View quote
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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. I will see if I can see. See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end. (James Joyce)
I am proud to be an emotionalist. View quote
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I think of you so often you have no idea. View quote
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Be just before you are generous. View quote
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I am other I now. View quote
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Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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More mud, more crocodiles. View quote
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This is the moment which I call epiphany. First we recognise that the object is one integral thing, then we recognise that it is an organised composite structure, a thing in fact: finally, when the relation of the parts is exquisite, when the parts are adjusted to the special point, we recognise that it is that thing which it is. Its soul, its whatness, leaps to us from the vestment of its appearance. The soul of the commonest object, the structure of which is so adjusted, seems to us radiant. The object achieves its epiphany. (James Joyce)
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. View quote
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. View quote
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. View quote
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. View quote
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