James Joyce

Ireland
2 Feb 1882 // 13 Jan 1941
Writer

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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

The Dead
They lived and laughed and loved and left.

Finnegans Wake
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

Ulysses
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love loves to love love.

Ulysses
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 revery, he had heard their tale before.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Ulysses
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