James Joyce - Ulysses (1922)

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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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A father, said Stephen, battling against hopelessness, is a necessary evil.

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My patience are exhausted [Martha Clifford].

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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

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What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water…Begob, ma'am, says Mrs Cahill, God send you don't make them in the one pot.

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