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James Joyce Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself Picture Quote #1

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime Picture Quote #1

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that’s great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them Picture Quote #1

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul’s incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own Picture Quote #1

Mistakes are the portals of discovery Picture Quote #1

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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment Picture Quote #1

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts Picture Quote #1

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home Picture Quote #1

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways Picture Quote #1

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it? Picture Quote #1

Life is the great teacher Picture Quote #1

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Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies Picture Quote #1

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle Picture Quote #1

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action Picture Quote #1

Fall if you will, but rise you must Picture Quote #1

Shaw’s works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english Picture Quote #1

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance Picture Quote #1

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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place Picture Quote #1

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music Picture Quote #1

When a man is born... there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets Picture Quote #1

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past Picture Quote #1

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end Picture Quote #1

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires Picture Quote #1

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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age Picture Quote #1

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction Picture Quote #1

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse Picture Quote #1

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality Picture Quote #1

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions Picture Quote #1

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer Picture Quote #1

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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. (James Joyce Quotes) Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself (James Joyce Quotes) The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime (James Joyce Quotes) A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that’s great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them. (James Joyce Quotes) Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul’s incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own. (James Joyce Quotes) Mistakes are the portals of discovery (James Joyce Quotes) Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment (James Joyce Quotes) The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts (James Joyce Quotes) Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home (James Joyce Quotes) We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways (James Joyce Quotes) O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it? (James Joyce Quotes) Life is the great teacher (James Joyce Quotes) Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies (James Joyce Quotes) Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle (James Joyce Quotes) The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action (James Joyce Quotes) Fall if you will, but rise you must (James Joyce Quotes) Shaw’s works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english (James Joyce Quotes) Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance (James Joyce Quotes) He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place (James Joyce Quotes) He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music (James Joyce Quotes) When a man is born... there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets (James Joyce Quotes) Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past (James Joyce Quotes) Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end (James Joyce Quotes) But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires (James Joyce Quotes) Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age (James Joyce Quotes) I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction (James Joyce Quotes) Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse (James Joyce Quotes) Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality (James Joyce Quotes) Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions (James Joyce Quotes) Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer (James Joyce Quotes)

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