Light Quotes by James Joyce

13 Light quotes by James Joyce

Joyce captures light in the cracks of daily life, turning ordinary glances into moments of revelation. These thirteen snippets give a taste of his experimental voice while staying grounded in the simple act of seeing.

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You can still die when the sun is shining.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”

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“the park’s so dark by kindlelight. But look what you have in your handself!”

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from…

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“...the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”

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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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“Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc’s auk’s egg in the night of the bed of…

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What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill…

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Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through…

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He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If…

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The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older…

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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…

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“-Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position?”

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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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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…

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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…

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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“It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.”

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