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Quotes from Dubliners — James Joyce

1882–1941 Ireland

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One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Dubliners (1914)

He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul.

Dubliners (1914)

I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Dubliners (1914)

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

Dubliners (1914)

She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.

Dubliners (1914)

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis.

Dubliners (1914)

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

Dubliners (1914)

And why couldn't he have a voice too? asked Freddy Malins sharply. Is it because he's only a black? Nobody answered this question and Mary Jane led the table back to the legitimate opera.

Dubliners (1914)

He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

Dubliners (1914)

He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.

Dubliners (1914)

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Dubliners (1914)

One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Dubliners (1914)

Everything in Paris is gay

Dubliners (1914)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Joyce (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.