Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Quote by James Joyce

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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is...

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is...

Resignation is the timid sign of courage

Resignation is the timid sign of courage

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is...

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is...

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought...

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought...

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole...

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole...

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and...

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and...

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that...

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as...

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as...

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than...

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than...

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill...

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill...

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in...

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in...

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will...

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will...