807 Quotes by James Joyce




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    Formless spiritual. Father, Word and Holy Breath. Allfather, the heavenly man. Hiesos Kristos, magician of the beautiful, the Logos who suffers in us at every moment. This verily is that. I am the fire upon the alter. I am the sacrificial butter.

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    Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.

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    Why was the host (victim predestined) sad? He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.

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    The rain falling. Summer rain on the earth. Night rain. The darkness and warmth and flood of passion. Tonight the earth is loved-loved and possessed. Her lover's arms are round her: and she is silent.

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    A gust of wind blows in through the porch with the sound of shaken leaves. The flame of the lamp leaps.

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