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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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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.
James Joyce
History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.
James Joyce
What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?
James Joyce
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
James Joyce
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.
James Joyce
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
James Joyce
Let my country die for me.
James Joyce
Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
James Joyce
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James Joyce
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?
James Joyce
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
James Joyce
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
James Joyce
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
James Joyce
His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
James Joyce
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
James Joyce
Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.
James Joyce
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
James Joyce
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
James Joyce
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
James Joyce
