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We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

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James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
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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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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.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Let my country die for me.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Thought is the thought of thought.
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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
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Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.
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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.
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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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Absence, the highest form of presence.
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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
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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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