James Joyce: Citations en anglais

James Joyce était romancier, auteur dramatique, poète, critique et professeur irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“I'll tickle his catastrophe.”

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James Joyce

Source: Ulysses, 'Aeolus,' 'Lestrygonians,' 'Scylla And Charybdis,' & 'Wandering Rocks': A Facsimile Of Placards For Episodes 7 10

“Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.”

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James Joyce livre Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake

“[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.”

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“[…] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”

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Source: Ulysses by James Joyce

“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.”

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James Joyce livre Chamber Music

Source: Chamber Music

“I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”

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James Joyce livre The Dead

Source: The Dead

“Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.”

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James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“More mud, more crocodiles.”

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James Joyce livre Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Three quarks for Muster Mark! (383.1)”

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James Joyce livre Finnegans Wake

These lines were the source of the name of the particular entities known in modern physics as Quarks
Finnegans Wake (1939)

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

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James Joyce livre Dubliners

"Araby"
Dubliners (1914)