James Joyce Quotes, Doubt Quotes, Going Away Quotes

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. 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.

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

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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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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

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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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[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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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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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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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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