James Joyce Quotes, Book Quotes, Singing Quotes

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

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

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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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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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

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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

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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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A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

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Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

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Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music.

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Deal with him, Hemingway!

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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.

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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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Let my country die for me.

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There's no friends like the old friends.

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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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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

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