James Joyce: Citations en anglais

James Joyce était romancier, auteur dramatique, poète, critique et professeur irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Contexte: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“Be just before you are generous.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.”

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James Joyce livre The Dead

Source: The Dead

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

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James Joyce livre Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

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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 am other I now.”

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James Joyce

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses