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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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Shut your eyes and see.
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Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
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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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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
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Love me. Love my umbrella.
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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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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying: — That is God. Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee! — What? Mr Deasy asked. — A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it only swallow it down.
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When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
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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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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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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
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