“You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses (1922), Ch. 2: Nestor
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“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.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”James Joyce UlyssesSource: Ulysses
