James Joyce Quotes, Book Quotes, Singing Quotes

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

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Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. 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 into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.

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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

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What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

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Love me. Love my umbrella.

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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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Life is too short to read a bad book.

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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?

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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

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A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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