James Joyce: Citations en anglais

James Joyce était romancier, auteur dramatique, poète, critique et professeur irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“Have read little and understood less.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real
adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Let my country die for me.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“When a man is born… there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“As you are now so once were we.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.”

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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 movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

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Source: Dubliners (1914)

“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.”

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James Joyce

Letter to Augusta Gregory (22 November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, <small> ISBN 0-195-03381-7</small>] (p. 107)