James Joyce Quotes, Heart Quotes, Eye Quotes

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

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

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Love loves to love love.

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In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

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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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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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

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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

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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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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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Redheaded women buck like goats.

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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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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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