James Joyce cytaty

strona 4

„We wszystkim trzeba umieć uchwycić odpowiedni moment.”

„Człowiek mógłby żyć samotnie przez całe życie. Ale chociaż sam mógłby wykopać swój własny grób, musi mieć kogoś, kto go pochowa.”

„Nie można być jednocześnie dorosłym człowiekiem i chrześcijaninem.”

„Uderzony czas oddaje, cios za cios.”

„Człowiek genialny nie myli się; jego pomyłki są zamierzone, są bramą prowadzącą do odkryć.”

„Prawdziwość oszczerstwa nie chroni w oczach prawa przed oskarżeniem o rozpowszechnianie go.”

„Uśmiech wędruje daleko.”

„Rzeźnicy robią się podobni do surowych befsztyków.”

„Nigdy nie wiesz, czyje myśli przeżuwasz.”

„Lustro to najlepsze miejsce dla ogłoszeń, żeby wpadły w oko kobiecie.”

„Aptekarze rzadko się przenoszą. Za ciężko przesuwać te zielone i złote słoje.”

„Molo – rozczarowany most.”

„Domem Irlandczyka jest jego trumna.”

„Bóg jest daleko.”

„Kto rano wstaje, temu się źle zdaje.”

„Historia jest nocną zmorą, z której staramy się przebudzić.”

„Walczę, by przezwyciężyć słabość, strach, by odnieść zwycięstwo nad sobą.”

„Eksperyment – pułapka zastawiona na Boga.”

„Miał trochę odwagi ten pierwszy facet, który zerwał roślinę, żeby się leczyć.”

“Every bond is a bond to sorrow.”

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.”

“She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.”

“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!”

“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”

“Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”

“if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”

“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.”

“What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.”

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

“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.”

“Be just before you are generous.”

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

“Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear.”

“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.”

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”

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

“For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

“I am other I now.”

“When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.”

“I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard you singing
Through the gloom.”

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

“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”