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Ulysses quotes

James Joyce

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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Love loves to love love.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Shut your eyes and see.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“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
“History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.” 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
“God made food, the devil the cooks.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“everything is dear if you don't want it.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Let my country die for me.” 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
“I fear those big words . . . which make us so unhappy.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Another victory like that and we are done for.” 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
“Hopeless thing sand. Nothing grows in it. All fades.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother?” James Joyce, Ulysses
“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.” 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
“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.” James Joyce, Ulysses

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