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.
JAMES JOYCEAnd 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.
JAMES JOYCEHold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCEThe light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
JAMES JOYCEHe wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
JAMES JOYCEWelcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
JAMES JOYCEEvery life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
JAMES JOYCEHe found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
JAMES JOYCEI care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
JAMES JOYCEFall if you will, but rise you must.
JAMES JOYCEWhite pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
JAMES JOYCEI wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
JAMES JOYCEA man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
JAMES JOYCEHis soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
JAMES JOYCEYour mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
JAMES JOYCEThere is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCEO, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
JAMES JOYCE