James Joyce Quotes, Eye Quotes, Vision Quotes

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

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Have read little and understood less.

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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

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Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

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Places remember events.

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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.

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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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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

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