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I am proud to be an emotionalist.

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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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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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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.
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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
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All human history moves towards one great goal
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses
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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
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Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.
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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
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