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First Quotes by James Joyce
- If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
- Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
- A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind…
- If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas…
- What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.
- Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer…
- I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and…
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