James Joyce Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Summer Quotes

Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it.

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

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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

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My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

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It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

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Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

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Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

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Life is the great teacher.

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

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Shut your eyes and see.

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Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

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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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