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• Not in time, place or circumstance but in the man lies success.

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• Let my country die for me.

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• He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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• All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

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• Gentes and laitymen, fullstoppers and semicolonials, hybreds and lubberds!

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• That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

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• Her crocus dress she wore, lowcut, belongings on show.

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• Heavenly weather. If life was always like that. Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can’t play it here. Still, Captain Buller broke a window in Kildare Street Club with a slog to square leg.

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• A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

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• Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.

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• A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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• Lawn Tennyson, gentleman poet.

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

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• It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

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• The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

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• 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.

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• The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

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• To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

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• The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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• Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

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Birth:	2nd February, 1882
Death:	13th January, 1941
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish novelist, short story writer and poet. He earned a BA degree from the University College Dublin in 1902. He wrote several novels include: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. He wrote several collection of poems include: Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and Collected Poems. He wrote several short stories include: Dubliners, The Dead, Araby, Eveline, The Sisters, Clay, Counterparts, Grace, and Two Gallants.

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