James Joyce Quotes, Soul Quotes, Praying Quotes

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

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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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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 hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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

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

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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