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From Quotes by James Joyce
- Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun…
- When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
- Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered…
- When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail…
- 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…
- A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power…
- What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But…
- My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.
- When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides,…
- Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the…
- The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances…
- A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed…
- While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from…
- History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
- A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open…
- Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they…
- He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
- Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
- It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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