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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 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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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.
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Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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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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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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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
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For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Shut your eyes and see.
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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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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest.
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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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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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
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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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