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I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — James Joyce · 1915Being in love2 quotes
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before. — James Joyce · 1915My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. — James Joyce · 1914Self-expression2 quotes
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — James Joyce · 1915Society and the individual2 quotes
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — James Joyce · 1915Atheism1 quote
It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. — James Joyce · 1915Being carefree1 quote
He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. — James Joyce · 1915Being true to oneself1 quote
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915Contentment1 quote
He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. — James Joyce · 1915Desire1 quote
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. — James Joyce · 1915FOMO1 quote
He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast. — James Joyce · 1914Genius1 quote
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922Happiness1 quote
He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. — James Joyce · 1915History1 quote
History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. — James Joyce · 1922Hope1 quote
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. — James Joyce · 1915Learning from mistakes1 quote
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922Life1 quote
They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939Looking back1 quote
They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939Memory1 quote
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or reverie, he had heard their tale before. — James Joyce · 1915Missing someone1 quote
And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. — James Joyce · 1939Mistakes1 quote
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922Mother's love1 quote
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. — James Joyce · 1915Mothers1 quote
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. — James Joyce · 1915Mothers and children1 quote
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. — James Joyce · 1915Observation1 quote
Shut your eyes and see. — James Joyce · 1922Ocean and sea1 quote
The sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. — James Joyce · 1922Perception1 quote
Shut your eyes and see. — James Joyce · 1922Personal integrity1 quote
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915Religion1 quote
It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. — James Joyce · 1915