James Joyce Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Pride Quotes

A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

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I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

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He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

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Places remember events.

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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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

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

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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

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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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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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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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There's no friends like the old friends.

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