James Joyce Quotes, Angel Quotes, Errors Quotes

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

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

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Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.

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Wipe your glasses with what you know.

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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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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

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

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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

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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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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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

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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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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.

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