James Joyce Quotes, Perfect Quotes, Water Quotes

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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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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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.

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

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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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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Let my country die for me.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

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I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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