James Joyce Quotes, Buddhism Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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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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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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Does nobody understand?

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You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

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A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

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Places remember events.

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Love loves to love love.

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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

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