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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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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
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Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!
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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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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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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'll tickle his catastrophe.
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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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You cannot eat your cake and have it.
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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
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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. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
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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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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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