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Ulysses (1922)
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Be a warm day I fancy. Specially in these black clothes feel it more. Black conducts, reflects (refracts is it?) the heat.
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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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Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.
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If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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ZOE:
Come and I'll peel off.
BLOOM:
(Feeling his occiput dubiously with the unparalleled embarrassment of a harassed peddler gauging the symmetry of her peeled pears.) Somebody would be dreadfully jealous if she knew.
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As a physicist he had learned that of the 70 years of complete human life at least 2/7, viz. 20 years are passed in sleep.
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Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.
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Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.
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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
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O thanks be to the great God I got somebody to give me what I badly wanted to put some heart up into me youve no chances at all inthis place like you used long ago I wish somebody would write me a loveletter....
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
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The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
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What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.
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Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
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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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British Beatitudes!…Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.
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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.
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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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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
February 2, 1882
Died:
January 13, 1941
(aged 58)
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