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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?”

James Joyce book The Dead

Source: The Dead

“and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”

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

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“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.”

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

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”

James Joyce

“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

James Joyce

Letter to Fanny Guillermet (Zurich, 5 September 1918)

“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”

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

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”

James Joyce Ulysses

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Source: Ulysses (1922)

“First we feel. Then we fall.”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”

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

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses