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James Joyce
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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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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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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
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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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
James Joyce
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
James Joyce
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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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.
James Joyce
His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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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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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
James Joyce
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
James Joyce
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
James Joyce
Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.
James Joyce
