James Joyce Quotes, Real Quotes, Echoes Quotes

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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We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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And if he had judged her harshly? 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 willful as a bird's heart?

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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.

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Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

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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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Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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