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“Every life is 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.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Shut your eyes and see.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Let my country die for me.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“there is no word tender enough to be your name”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother?”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“everything is dear if you don't want it.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“The fourth member of the party, however, was too excited to be genuinely happy.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“Love loves to love love.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“This race and this country and this life produced me . . . I shall express myself as I am.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“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 wilful as a bird's heart?”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money.”
James Joyce
,
Ulysses
“Hasn't the working-man as good a right to be in the Corporation as anyone else—ay, and a better right than those shoneens that are always hat in hand before any fellow with a handle to his name?”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction?”
James Joyce
,
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“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.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
“After a quarter of a century of married life, she had very few illusions left.”
James Joyce
,
Dubliners
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