James Joyce: Citations en anglais

“Love loves to love love.”

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

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

“Shut your eyes and see.”

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

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

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

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

“Me. And me now.”

“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.”

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.”

“This triviality made him think of collecting many such moments together in a book of epiphanies. By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself.”