James Joyce Short Quotes

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My patience are exhausted [Martha Clifford].

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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

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Around us fear, descending
Darkness of fear above

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That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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

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'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry

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Frail the white rose and frail are
Her hands that gave

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

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Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.

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

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Boor, bond of thy herd,
Tonight stretch full by the fire!

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The sly reeds whisper to the night
A name — her name —

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The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

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

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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

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The only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning.

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

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.

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

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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay.

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And mine a shielded heart for her
Who gathers simples of the moon.

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White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of.

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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

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

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

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