He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. James Joyce More Quotes by James Joyce More Quotes From James Joyce There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. James Joyce dublin going-away doubt What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? James Joyce universe rounds shows His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide. James Joyce heart love romantic He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone. James Joyce voice darkness night 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 knowing mind reality This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. James Joyce this-life race country He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. James Joyce treasure phrases clouds Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. James Joyce stars fire memories What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools. James Joyce light air fall Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. James Joyce finnegans-wake secular ifs British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops. James Joyce beef bulldogs beer History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. James Joyce nightmare awakening A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives. James Joyce leaving regret clouds The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him. James Joyce unseen path adventure There's no police like Holmes. James Joyce holmes police First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race. James Joyce illustration race men Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good. James Joyce thanks long You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. James Joyce kingdoms suffering heaven The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them. James Joyce insecure choices adventure The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist. James Joyce greatness office artist
