I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“he met the eyes of others with unanswering eyes, for he felt that the spirit of beauty had folded him round like… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love, since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“two cronies drank to the memory of their past. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
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… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
