James Joyce Quotes, Country Quotes

Let my country die for me.

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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

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What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

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

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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. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

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

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Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

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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 Jove.

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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any stray heroics on the prowl for me.

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