79 quotes
Seraphim,
The lost hosts awaken
Pomes Penyeach (1927)
Alone, what did Bloom feel?
The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point
or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur:
the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.
Ulysses (1922)
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
[...] in certain cases absence is the highest form of presence.
I want to achieve myself—little or great as I may be—for I know that there is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to my church as a human being, and accordingly I am going to Paris.
Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look, the dusk is growing!
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
James Clarence Mangan (1902)
In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen. (419.9-10)
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)
Finnegans Wake (1939)
(Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery (243)
Ulysses (1922)
This triviality made him think of collecting many such moments together in a book of epiphanies. By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself.
Stephen Hero (1944)
If I gave it all up immediately, I'd lose my immortality. 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.
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. (4.15-17)
Finnegans Wake (1939)
To say that a great genius is half-mad, while recognizing his artistic prowess, is worth as much as saying that he was rheumatic, or that he suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical expression to which a balanced critic should pay no more heed than he would to the accusation of heresy brought by the theologian, or to the accusation of immorality brought by the public prosecutor.
Everything in Paris is gay
Dubliners (1914)
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Misattributed
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Misattributed
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Misattributed
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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