Real world Quote by James Joyce

““He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.””

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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“Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body.”

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many…

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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

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“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

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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 than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. No life or youth stirred in him as it had stirred in them. He had known neither…

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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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It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with…

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“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a…

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[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

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“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste' 'It seems big enough when you're in it, Sir.' 'And yet…

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“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded thinking. Technology must be used in as neutral a way as possible, not blind us to the truth about whom we are as real people. Some people give far too much personal power to this false reality. Instead…

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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking…

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