James Joyce Quotes, Eye Quotes, Mirrors Quotes

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

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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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By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

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Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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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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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

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Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

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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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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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

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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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