James Joyce: Citations en anglais

James Joyce était romancier, auteur dramatique, poète, critique et professeur irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”

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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.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

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.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

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.”

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

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Letter to Fanny Guillermet (Zurich, 5 September 1918)

“Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.”

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James Joyce livre The Dead

Source: The Dead

“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.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“First we feel. Then we fall.”

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James Joyce livre 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?”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“You can still die when the sun is shining.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

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.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses