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“In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

419.9-10
Finnegans Wake (1939)

“He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

"A Little Cloud"
Dubliners (1914)
Context: He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen.

“There's no friends like the old friends.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”

“It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“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 forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.”

“Love loves to love love.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce quote: “Life is too short to read a bad book.”

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”

“All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.”

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

“Me. And me now.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Shut your eyes and see.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“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.”

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses (1922), Ch. 2: Nestor