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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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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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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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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
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Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk
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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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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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As you are now so once were we.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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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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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
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