The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
JAMES JOYCEIn the particular is contained the universal.
More James Joyce Quotes
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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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.
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A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
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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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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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