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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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Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.
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Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.
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No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.
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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
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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.
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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.
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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
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My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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Love me. Love my umbrella.
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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
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Does nobody understand?
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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There's many a true word spoken in jest.
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Life is the great teacher.
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide.
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