Top 303 quotes by James Joyce

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James Joyce quote People trample over flowers...

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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People , Flower , Cactus

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James Joyce quote Shut your eyes and see.

Shut your eyes and see.
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James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.67, eBookIt.com

Eye , Insight , Zeus

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James Joyce quote Absence, the highest form o...

Absence, the highest form of presence.
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James Joyce (1965). “The dead”

Form , Absence , Highest

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James Joyce quote There is not past, no futur...

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
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Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.

Past , Flow , Eternal

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James Joyce quote Mistakes are the portals of...

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Mistake , Inspiring , Encouraging

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James Joyce quote The supreme question about ...

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.386, e-artnow

Art , Doe , Spring

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James Joyce quote Your mind will give back to...

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
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Mind , Giving , Giving Back

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James Joyce quote Think you're escaping and r...

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
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James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

Running , Inspirational , Life

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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Inspirational , Passion , Work

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

Art , Creation , Invisible

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

Way , Writing , Arguing

Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
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Brain , Sound , Kissing Him

Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Fall , Ifs

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.21, e-artnow

Beautiful , Cry , Wanted