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Ulysses (1922)
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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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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
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People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
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But oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
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The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!
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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…
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I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness.
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Frseeeeeeeefronnnng train somewhere whistling the strength those engines have in them like big giants and the water rolling all over and out of them all sides like the end of Loves old sweeeetsonnnng the poor men that have to be out all the night from their wives and families in those roasting engines
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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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