James Joyce Quotes, Silence Quotes, Library Quotes

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

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

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I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

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

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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life

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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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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

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Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

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He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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Wipe your glosses with what you know.

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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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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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