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• Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Beauty, Long, Desire

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

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• It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

  James Joyce

  Men, Long, Care

  James Joyce (1963). “Stephen Hero”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

  James Joyce

  Evil, Hell, Intense

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.243, Courier Dover Publications

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• I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

  James Joyce

  Church, Spit, Insulted

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.198, Courier Dover Publications

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• The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

  James Joyce

  Sea, Ireland

  Ulysses (1922)

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• Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

  James Joyce

  Long, Thanks

  James Joyce (2016). “Stephen Hero & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Two Autobiographical Novels): Including Biography of the Author”, p.79, e-artnow

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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.

  James Joyce

  Men, Skeletons, People

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• Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

  James Joyce

  Father

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time.

  James Joyce

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

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• When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Dublin, Dies

  "Ariel Sharon's memorial service and funeral - as it happened" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2014.

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Insecure, Choices

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• O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.

  James Joyce

  Love, Sex, Heart

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.681, e-artnow

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• The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Path, Unseen

  James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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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.

  James Joyce

  Dream, Heart, Men

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.699, Simon and Schuster

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• ...rapid motion through space elates one.

  James Joyce

  Running, Space, Rapids

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

  James Joyce

  Men

  James Joyce (1967). “Dubliners”, p.88, Lulu.com

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• Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

  James Joyce

  Night, Names, Maleficent

  James Joyce (2014). “The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.17, Broadview Press

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• Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

  James Joyce

  Attention, May, Gates

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (1998). “Ulysses”, p.396

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• The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

  James Joyce

  Reading, Demand, Should

  Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

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• That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

  James Joyce

  Insomnia, Suffering, Reader

  'Finnegans Wake' (1939) pt. 1, p. 120

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• It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

  James Joyce

  Autumn, Break Off, Weather

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.84, Courier Dover Publications

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• What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

  James Joyce

  Fall, Light, Air

  James Joyce (1996). “James Joyce: The Poems in Verse and Prose”, Trafalgar Square

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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.

  James Joyce

  Art, Joy, Feelings

  James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

  James Joyce

  Country, Men, Light

  'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916) ch. 5

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• Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

  James Joyce

  Prayer, Confused, Heart

  James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners”, p.27, First Avenue Editions

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