James Joyce Quotes, Distance Quotes

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

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Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

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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 from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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

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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

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

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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

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Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

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Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives.

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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