James Joyce Quotes, Water Quotes, Jesus Christ Quotes

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

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

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Let my country die for me.

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

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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic, I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.

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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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My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

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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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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

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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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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

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