James Joyce Quotes, Men Quotes, Curves Quotes

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

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The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

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

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

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Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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There's no police like Holmes.

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You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

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When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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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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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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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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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

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