James Joyce Quotes, Perfect Quotes, Water Quotes

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

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Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

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

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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 the rixdix doldy.

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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

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If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

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if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

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Have read little and understood less.

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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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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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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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There's many a true word spoken in jest.

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

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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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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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

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