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The voices blend and fuse in ...

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

James Joyce 372 quotes

You ask me why I don’t love y...

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.

James Joyce 372 quotes

Sentimentality is unearned em...

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

James Joyce 372 quotes

I will tell you what I will d...

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and 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.

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The personality of the artist...

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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His eyes were dimmed with tea...

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

James Joyce 372 quotes

Though people may read more i...

Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

James Joyce 372 quotes

Every age must look for its s...

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 372 quotes

Sometimes he caught himself l...

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 372 quotes

Welcome, O life! I go to enco...

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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A woman loses a charm with ev...

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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I wanted real adventures to h...

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

James Joyce 372 quotes

Secrets, silent, stony sit in...

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

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O, dread and dire word. Etern...

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

James Joyce 372 quotes

Do you know what a pearl is a...

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.

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Bury the dead. Say Robinson C...

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

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White pudding and eggs and sa...

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

James Joyce 372 quotes

It soared, a bird, it held it...

It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness.

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And Jesus was a Jew too. Your...

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

James Joyce 372 quotes

All fiction is autobiographic...

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

James Joyce 372 quotes

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