James Joyce Quotes, Pride Quotes, Ruins Quotes

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

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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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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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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

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Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.

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And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

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

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Does nobody understand?

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

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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

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When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

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

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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

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Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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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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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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