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Letter "J" » James Joyce Quotes
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«When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.»
Author: James Joyce
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Dublin
«Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.»
Author: James Joyce
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artistic, diabetes, grants, heresy, immorality, medical, objective, police, recognizing, rheumatism, theologian, The Police
«All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.»
«Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.»
«When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.»
Author: James Joyce
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afar, angered, Economic development, flees, individuality, intellectual development, Ireland, Irishman, Jove, permit, prevail, respected, stays, undergone, visitation
«What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?»
«When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.»
Author: James Joyce
«I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.»
Author: James Joyce
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at will, Coming of age, His father, legal, legal fiction, of age, paternity
«Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.»
Author: James Joyce
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adventurer, adventurers, battlefield, battlefields, bequeath, bequeathed, combat, eater, eaters, feeble, fierce, hunters, hurry, refuses
«The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and partridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power»
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