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No, it did a lot of other things, too. [turning down fan who asked to kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses By James Joyce
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Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals. By James Joyce
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life. By James Joyce
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no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns By James Joyce
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Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, By James Joyce
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He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage. By James Joyce
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But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines. By James Joyce
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Why was he doubly irritated?Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget. By James Joyce
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. By James Joyce
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Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically. By James Joyce
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There's music along the river For Love wanders there,Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair. By James Joyce
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Lips kissed, kissing kissed. By James Joyce
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I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse. By James Joyce
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Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman. By James Joyce
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An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy. By James Joyce
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The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future. By James Joyce
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The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action. By James Joyce
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[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. By James Joyce
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Ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea By James Joyce
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Why was the host (victim predestined) sad? He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told. By James Joyce
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There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human. By James Joyce
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What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? By James Joyce
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And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday. By James Joyce
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I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom. By James Joyce
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The long eyelids beat and lift: a burning needleprick stings and quivers in the velvet iris. By James Joyce
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We who live under heaven, we of the clovery kindgom, we middlesins people have often watched the sky overreaching the land. By James Joyce
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[ ... ] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend. By James Joyce
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We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter ... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race. By James Joyce
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Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May!Love is unhappy when love is away! By James Joyce
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His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. By James Joyce
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There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. By James Joyce
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nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants. By James Joyce
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. By James Joyce
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The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. By James Joyce
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How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys! By James Joyce
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Love me. Love my umbrella. By James Joyce
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory. By James Joyce
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Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. By James Joyce
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He looked calmly down on her bulk and between her large soft bubs, sloping within her nightdress like a shegoat's udder. By James Joyce
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Don't eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity. By James Joyce
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Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? By James Joyce
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I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses By James Joyce
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Bite my laughters, drink my tears. Pore into me, volumes, spell me stark and spill me swooning, I just don't care what my thwarters think. By James Joyce
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King Solomon says in Proverbs that there is nothing new under the sun. By James Joyce
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There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts. By James Joyce
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Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind. By James Joyce
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He knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th By James Joyce
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We are once amore as babes awondering in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we start from scratch. By James Joyce
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The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. By James Joyce
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His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. By James Joyce
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We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. By James Joyce
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It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling. By James Joyce
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday. By James Joyce
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I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. By James Joyce
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And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...) By James Joyce
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Deal with him, Hemingway! By James Joyce
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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue... By James Joyce
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. By James Joyce
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Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle. By James Joyce
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. By James Joyce
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Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined. By James Joyce
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The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. By James Joyce
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. By James Joyce
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Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped. By James Joyce
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What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way? By James Joyce
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Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it. By James Joyce
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When I find a lady who is content with her own picture I will send a bouquet to the Pope By James Joyce
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Ena milo melomon, frai is frau and swee is too, swee is two when swoo is free, ana mala woe is we! By James Joyce
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Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. By James Joyce
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It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. By James Joyce
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He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. By James Joyce
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(...) and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...) By James Joyce
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I know by heart the places he likes to saale, delvan first and duvlin after, by dredgerous lands and devious delts By James Joyce
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I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life. By James Joyce
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Wipe your glosses with what you know. By James Joyce
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And thanks be to God, Johnny, said Mr Dedalus, that we lived so long and did so little harm. By James Joyce
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Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good. By James Joyce
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Wery weeny wight, plead for Morandmor! Notre Dame de la Ville, mercy of thy balmheartzyheat! By James Joyce
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What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction? By James Joyce
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You cannot eat your cake and have it. By James Joyce
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Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words. By James Joyce
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Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. By James Joyce
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White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. By James Joyce
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Her who whose beauty is not like earthly beauty, dangerous to look upon, but like the morning star which is its emblem, bright and musical. By James Joyce
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He found trivial all that was meant to charm him and did not answer the glances which invited him to be bold. By James Joyce
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He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage. By James Joyce
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The park's so dark by kindlelight. But look what you have in your handself! By James Joyce
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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? By James Joyce
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( ... ) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. By James Joyce
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He said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the tea ... By James Joyce
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes. By James Joyce
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My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out. By James Joyce
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Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet! By James Joyce
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There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. By James Joyce
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies. By James Joyce
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They listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine. By James Joyce
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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? By James Joyce
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When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart. By James Joyce
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His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth. By James Joyce
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Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you everytelling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. By James Joyce
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He imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve. By James Joyce
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Let my country die for me. By James Joyce
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The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart. By James Joyce
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Begin to forget it. It will remember itself from every sides, with all gestures in each our word. Today's truth, tomorrow's trend. By James Joyce
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I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me. By James Joyce
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A light wind passed his brow, fanning softly his fair uncombed hair and stirring silver points of anxiety in his eyes. By James Joyce
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So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat. By James Joyce
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Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies. By James Joyce
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. By James Joyce
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The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. By James Joyce
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His eyes were dimmed with tears, and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost. By James Joyce
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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. By James Joyce
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. By James Joyce
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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. By James Joyce
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Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed ... By James Joyce
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Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind. By James Joyce
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. By James Joyce
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And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him. By James Joyce
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Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains. By James Joyce
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Ah, poor dogsbody! Here lies poor dogsbody's body. By James Joyce
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Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. By James Joyce
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A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. By James Joyce
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A dream of favours, a favourable dream. They know how they believe that they believe that they know. Wherefore they wail. By James Joyce
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all! By James Joyce
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works. By James Joyce
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime. By James Joyce
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Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. By James Joyce
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YesIsaidyesyesyesyesyes...YesIsaidyes! andagainyesyesyes -- Molly Bloom By James Joyce
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Children must be educated by love, not punishment. By James Joyce
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Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost. By James Joyce
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A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her. By James Joyce
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I am proud to be an emotionalist. By James Joyce
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Hump for humbleness, dump for dirts. By James Joyce
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Fall if you will, but rise you must. By James Joyce
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He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains. By James Joyce
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Skipped off the gunrest and looked gravely at his watcher, gathering about his legs the loose folds of his By James Joyce
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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If my Spreadeagles Wasn't so Tight I'd Loosen my Cursits on that Bunch of Maggiestraps ... By James Joyce
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Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods. By James Joyce
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For journalists words are simply tokens to be arranged and rearranged indifferently. But for an artist there can be only one ideal order. By James Joyce
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He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney. By James Joyce
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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 By James Joyce
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School and home seem to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane. By James Joyce
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. By James Joyce
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. By James Joyce
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O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh By James Joyce
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Broken Eggs will poursuive bitten Apples for where theirs is Will there's his Wall By James Joyce
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He longed to be master of her strange mood. By James Joyce
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The world is before you By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars. By James Joyce
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. By James Joyce
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My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity - home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines By James Joyce
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Peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: By James Joyce
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Masturbation! The amazing availability of it! By James Joyce
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My heart is quite calm now. I will go back. By James Joyce
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Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude ... By James Joyce
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. By James Joyce
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I think of you so often you have no idea. By James Joyce
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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. By James Joyce
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Wipe your glasses with what you know. By James Joyce
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The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity. By James Joyce
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Knock knock. War's where! Which war? The Twwinns. Knock knock. Woos without! Without what? An apple. Knock knock. By James Joyce
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery. By James Joyce
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Oh Ireland my first and only loveWhere Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! By James Joyce
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I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on. By James Joyce
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We'll meet again, we'll part once more. By James Joyce
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Were all important in god's eyes. By James Joyce
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination By James Joyce
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Too excited to be genuinely happy By James Joyce
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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 ... By James Joyce
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-I bar the candles, ... I bar the magic-lanternbusiness. By James Joyce
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What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? By James Joyce
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Interpretations of interpretations interpreted. By James Joyce
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus. By James Joyce
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Redheaded women buck like goats. By James Joyce
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Some people, says Bloom, can see the mote in others' eyes but they can't see the beam in their own. By James Joyce
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The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. By James Joyce
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The slow growth and change of rite and dogma like his own rare thoughts, a chemistry of stars. By James Joyce
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. By James Joyce
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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said I shall express myself as I am. By James Joyce
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. By James Joyce
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Where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green ... By James Joyce
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You can still die when the sun is shining. By James Joyce
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Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O. By James Joyce
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. By James Joyce
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The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town. By James Joyce
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We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh By James Joyce
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As you are now so once were we. By James Joyce
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals. By James Joyce
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Sparkling bronze azure eyed Blazure's skyblue bow and eyes. By James Joyce
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I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy. By James Joyce
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She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband. By James Joyce
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To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. By James Joyce
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Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history. By James Joyce
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The trees do not resent autumn nordoes any exemplary thing in nature resent its limitations. By James Joyce
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Grace before Glutton. For what we are, gifs a gross if we are, about to believe. By James Joyce
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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife. By James Joyce
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Thought is the thought of thought. By James Joyce
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God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain. By James Joyce
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You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you... By James Joyce
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preacher's tone: By James Joyce
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. By James Joyce
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- O, to tell you the truth, retorted Gabriel suddenly, I'm sick of my own country, sick of it! By James Joyce
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Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls. By James Joyce
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Life is the great teacher. By James Joyce
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There was cold sunlight outside the window. By James Joyce
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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. By James Joyce
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I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. By James Joyce
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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. By James Joyce
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And I shall be misunderstord if understood to give an unconditional sinequam to the heroicised furibouts of the Nolanus theory, By James Joyce
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- I think he died for me, she answered. By James Joyce
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Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no other word tender enough to be your name? By James Joyce
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There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. By James Joyce
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:A day of dappled seaborne clouds. By James Joyce
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He had to undress and then kneel and say his own prayers before the gas was lowered so that he might not go to hell when he died. By James Joyce
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Suck it yourself, sugarstick! By James Joyce
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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. By James Joyce
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Know all men, he said, time's ruins build eternity's mansions. By James Joyce
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- What is a ghost? Stephen said with tingling energy. One who has faded into impalpability through death, through absence, through change of manners. By James Joyce
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Quotations every day of the year. By James Joyce
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. By James Joyce
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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. By James Joyce
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Have read little and understood less. By James Joyce
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I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ! I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe! By James Joyce
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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. By James Joyce
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. By James Joyce
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. By James Joyce
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Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. By James Joyce
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Signatures of all things I am here to read. By James Joyce
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Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body. By James Joyce
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It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own. By James Joyce
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. By James Joyce
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British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops. By James Joyce
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And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father. By James Joyce
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History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. By James Joyce
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His wife was a little sharp-faced woman who bullied her husband when he was sober and was bullied by him when he was drunk. By James Joyce
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All human history moves towards one great goal By James Joyce
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The ree the ra the ree the ra the roo. Lord, I mustn't lilt here. By James Joyce
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There's no police like Holmes. By James Joyce
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For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me. By James Joyce
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Eternity! O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it? By James Joyce
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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. By James Joyce
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Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path. By James Joyce
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A way a lone a last a loved a long the - By James Joyce
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I'll tickle his catastrophe. By James Joyce
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Life is too short to read bad books. By James Joyce
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Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all. By James Joyce
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God, these bloody English! Bursting with money and indigestion. Because he comes from Oxford. You By James Joyce
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Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species. By James Joyce
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. By James Joyce
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It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only Godcould do that. By James Joyce
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In the particular is contained the universal. By James Joyce
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. By James Joyce
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Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas. By James Joyce
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I am, a stride at a time By James Joyce
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- I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod. By James Joyce
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So weenybeenyveenyteeny. By James Joyce
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I am other I now. By James Joyce
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Unsheathe your dagger definitions; Horseness is the Whatness of All Horse ... By James Joyce
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Be just before you are generous. By James Joyce
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I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame. By James Joyce
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Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him. By James Joyce
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Does nobody understand? By James Joyce
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The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. By James Joyce
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out. By James Joyce
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Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear. By James Joyce
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Here Comes Everybody. By James Joyce
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Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for? By James Joyce
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God made food; the devil the cooks. By James Joyce
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more. By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain. By James Joyce
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. By James Joyce
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Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!" ("The end of pleasure is pain!") By James Joyce
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Phall if you but will, rise you must. By James Joyce
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Peter Piper pecked a peck of pick of peck of pickled pepper. By James Joyce
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First we feel. Then we fall. By James Joyce
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They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Ulysses By James Joyce
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. By James Joyce
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. By James Joyce
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To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic. By James Joyce
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For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers. By James Joyce
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That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia. By James Joyce
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Slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going. By James Joyce
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A nation is the same people living in the same place. By James Joyce
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Lord help you, Maria, full of grease, the load is with me! Your prayers. I sonht zo! Madammangut! By James Joyce
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws. By James Joyce
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The mockery of it! he said gaily By James Joyce
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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. By James Joyce
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Shite and onions! By James Joyce
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Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder. By James Joyce
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It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture. By James Joyce
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We must go to Athens. By James Joyce
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The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude. By James Joyce
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. By James Joyce
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Dress the pussy for her nighty and follow her piggytails up their way to Winkyland. By James Joyce
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- He can't wear them, Buck Mulligan told his face in the mirror. Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers. By James Joyce
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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish. By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money. By James Joyce
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Him wearily halfway and sat down on the edge of the gunrest, watching him still as he propped his By James Joyce
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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. By James Joyce
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Tenors get women by the score. By James Joyce
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Before all this has time to end the golden age must return with its vengeance. Man will become dirigible ... By James Joyce
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round hat, set upon it sideways, looked By James Joyce
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No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. By James Joyce
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Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. By James Joyce
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This in no life for man or woman, insults and hatred and history. By James Joyce
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With will will we withstand, withsay. By James Joyce
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Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound. By James Joyce
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What proposal did Bloom, diambulist, father of Milly, somnambulist, make to Stephen, noctambulist? By James Joyce
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But I am curious to know are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself? By James Joyce
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Over the bowls of memory where every hollow holds a hallow By James Joyce
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With a pansy for the pussy in the corner. By James Joyce
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History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake. By James Joyce
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It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. By James Joyce
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. By James Joyce
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If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door. By James Joyce
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear. By James Joyce
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Date a girl who reads By James Joyce
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Every bond is a bond to sorrow. By James Joyce
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We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too. By James Joyce
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Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him? By James Joyce
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There's no friends like the old friends. By James Joyce
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By thinking of things you could understand them. By James Joyce
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The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead By James Joyce
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Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On By James Joyce
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. By James Joyce
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. By James Joyce
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Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires. By James Joyce
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Into the wikeawades warld from sleep we are passing. By James Joyce
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I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter. By James Joyce
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Obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days. By James Joyce
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This is the way to the museyroom. Mind your boots goan out. By James Joyce
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. By James Joyce
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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy. By James Joyce
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Love loves to love love. By James Joyce
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. By James Joyce
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Love ... is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself By James Joyce
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- He is dead, she said at length. He died when he was only seventeen. Isn't it a terrible thing to die so young as that? By James Joyce
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If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple. By James Joyce
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Her graceful beautifully shaped legs like that, supply soft and By James Joyce
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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. By James Joyce
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Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. By James Joyce
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I think Christmas is never really Christmas unless we have the snow on the ground. By James Joyce
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We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: By James Joyce
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the stone for my month a nice aquamarine By James Joyce
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peered sideways up and gave a long slow whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth By James Joyce
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The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. By James Joyce
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Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me. By James Joyce
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Sigh of leaves and waves, waiting, awaiting the fullness of their times, By James Joyce
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Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it. By James Joyce
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..they were yung and easily freudened.. By James Joyce
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Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. By James Joyce
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...and yes I said yes I will Yes. By James Joyce
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Groangrousegurgling Toft's cumbersome whirligig turns slowly the room right roundabout the room.) By James Joyce
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Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides, By James Joyce
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Three quarks for Muster Mark! By James Joyce
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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. By James Joyce
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If we were all suddenly somebody else. By James Joyce
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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. By James Joyce
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If we must have a Jesus let us have a legitimate Jesus. By James Joyce
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He used to call her Poppens out of fun. By James Joyce
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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight. By James Joyce
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My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial By James Joyce
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Will ye, ay or nay? By James Joyce
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I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. By James Joyce
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Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet? By James Joyce
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Love, yes. Word known to all men. By James Joyce
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery. By James Joyce
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For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints. By James Joyce
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Only a fadograph of a yestern scene. By James Joyce
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Reefer was a wenchman. By James Joyce
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. By James Joyce
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- I mean, said Stephen, that I was not myself as I am now, as I had to become. By James Joyce
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When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. By James Joyce
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Shut your eyes and see. By James Joyce
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If it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. By James Joyce
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Your mind will give back exactly what you put into it. By James Joyce
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Absence, the highest form of presence. By James Joyce
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That is god ... A shout in the street,' Stephen answered ... By James Joyce
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He had tales of distant countries. By James Joyce
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You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think? By James Joyce
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What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own. By James Joyce
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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well. By James Joyce
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Let us leave all theories there and return to here's here. By James Joyce
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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature. By James Joyce
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Agenbite of Inwit By James Joyce
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. By James Joyce
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The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric. By James Joyce
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The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot. By James Joyce
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You get a decent do at the Brazen Head By James Joyce
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The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM! By James Joyce
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. By James Joyce
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As I am. As I am. All or not at all. By James Joyce
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Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye! By James Joyce
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What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete. By James Joyce
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They lived and laughed and loved and left. By James Joyce
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All seemed weary of life even before entering upon it. By James Joyce
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He is cured by faith who is sick of fate. By James Joyce
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A form of speech: the lesser for the greater. By James Joyce
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Always read with out reading u cant be any thing By James Joyce
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More mud, more crocodiles. By James Joyce
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- Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex. By James Joyce
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