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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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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
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The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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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.
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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: ----Introibo ad altare Dei.
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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
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There is not past, no future everything flows in an eternal present.
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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.
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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
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