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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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In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.
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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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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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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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Wipe your glosses with what you know.
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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.
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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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All human history moves towards one great goal
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Love, yes. Word known to all men.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
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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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There is not past, no future everything flows in an eternal present.
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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
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