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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate author of the 20th century.
He is best known[citation needed] for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial
successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners more..
James Joyce: While you have a thing it can be taken from
you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can
take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given
it. It will be yours always. That is to give. #Giving
James Joyce: I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do.
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call
itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to
express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can
and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I
allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning. #Selfexpression
James Joyce:Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us
can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a
simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk. #Risk
James Joyce: Love (understood as the desire of good for
another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can
scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin
again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again
into the ocean of another's soul. #Love
James Joyce: Welcome, 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. #Life
and Living
James Joyce:I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual
words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish
blood.
#Words
James Joyce: 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. #Names
James Joyce:History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I
am trying to awake.
#Dreams
James Joyce: You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers
violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. #Heaven
James Joyce: Mistakes are the portals of discovery. #Mistakes
James Joyce:Now for the third quality. For a long time I couldn't
make out what Aquinas meant. He uses a figurative word (a very
unusual thing for him) but I have solved it. Claritas is quidditas.
After the analysis which discovers the second quality the mind
makes the only logically possible synthesis and discovers the
third quality. This is the moment which I call epiphany. First we
recognise that the object is one integral thing, then we recognise
that it is an organised composite structure, a thing in fact: finally,
when the relation of the parts is exquisite, when the parts are
adjusted to the special point, we recognise that it is that thing
which it is. Its soul, its whatness, leaps to us from the vestment of
its appearance. The soul of the commonest object, the structure of
which is so adjusted, seems to us radiant. The object achieves its
epiphany. #Nature
James Joyce:Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a
creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned
with anguish and anger.
#Anger
James Joyce:History is a nightmare from which we are trying
to awaken. #History and Historians
James Joyce:Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was
general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark
central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of
Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark
mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part
of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay
buried. It lay drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones,
on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His 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.
#Age and Aging
James Joyce:'Tis as human a little story as paper could well
carry (115.36) #Books - Reading
James Joyce: No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no
quiet, no inclination. #Writers and Writing
James Joyce:We expect you are, honest Shaun, we agreed, but
from franking machines, limricked, that in the end it may well
turn out, we hear to be you, our belated, who will bear these
open letter. Speak to us of Emailia. (410.20-23) #Funerals
James Joyce:It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry,
soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come,
don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life,
soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the
effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of
the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around
about the all, the endlessnessnessness... (271) #Science and
Scientists
James Joyce:One by one they were all becoming shades.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of
some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
#Poverty and The Poor
James Joyce:Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who
believes that his own truth is complete and final must become
a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound
to persecute, to save others from falling into error. #Science
and Scientists
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