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James Joyce Quotes

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all! Picture Quote #1

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall Picture Quote #1

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods Picture Quote #1

O cold! O shivery! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once Picture Quote #1

What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? Picture Quote #1

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police Picture Quote #1

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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces? Picture Quote #1

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence Picture Quote #1

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 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

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too Picture Quote #1

If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity Picture Quote #1

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Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! 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. On and on and on and on! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives Picture Quote #1

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state Picture Quote #1

I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood Picture Quote #1

She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind Picture Quote #1

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He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely Picture Quote #1

One by one they were all becoming shades. 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’ve lapped so long. As you said. It fair takes. If I lose my breath for a minute or two don’t speak, remember! Once it happened, so it may again Picture Quote #1

I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning Picture Quote #1

Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it Picture Quote #1

Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend Picture Quote #1

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself Picture Quote #1

Why all this fuss and bother about the mystery of the unconscious? What about the mystery of the conscious? What do they know about that? Picture Quote #1

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can Picture Quote #1

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind Picture Quote #1

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in Picture Quote #1

Chuck Norris doesn’t need to understand the work of James Joyce; james Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris Picture Quote #1

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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all! (James Joyce Quotes) Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall (James Joyce Quotes) Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods (James Joyce Quotes) O cold! O shivery! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once (James Joyce Quotes) What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? (James Joyce Quotes) Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police (James Joyce Quotes) What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces? (James Joyce Quotes) Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence (James Joyce Quotes) 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 (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) You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too (James Joyce Quotes) If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity (James Joyce Quotes) Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! 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. On and on and on and on! (James Joyce Quotes) 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 (James Joyce Quotes) Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives (James Joyce Quotes) Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state (James Joyce Quotes) I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood (James Joyce Quotes) She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind (James Joyce Quotes) He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely (James Joyce Quotes) One by one they were all becoming shades. 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’ve lapped so long. As you said. It fair takes. If I lose my breath for a minute or two don’t speak, remember! Once it happened, so it may again (James Joyce Quotes) I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning (James Joyce Quotes) Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it (James Joyce Quotes) Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend (James Joyce Quotes) By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself (James Joyce Quotes) Why all this fuss and bother about the mystery of the unconscious? What about the mystery of the conscious? What do they know about that? (James Joyce Quotes) James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can (James Joyce Quotes) I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind (James Joyce Quotes) Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in (James Joyce Quotes) Chuck Norris doesn’t need to understand the work of James Joyce; james Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris (James Joyce Quotes)

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