James Joyce Quotes, Fall Quotes, Temptation Quotes

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

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The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

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What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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Every life is in 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.

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Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.

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