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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 desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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All human history moves towards one great goal
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
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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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Deal with him, Hemingway!
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You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.
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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
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