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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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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
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I'll tickle his catastrophe.
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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
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Love me. Love my umbrella.
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Tenors get women by the score.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.
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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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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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Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.
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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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There is not past, no future everything flows in an eternal present.
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And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?
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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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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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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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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
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Redheaded women buck like goats.
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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
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