James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joycewas an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde, and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the twentieth century...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1882
CityRathgar, Ireland
CountryIreland
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The feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer
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By the age of 45, I knew I could no longer start a sentence with a mention of strudel. My fingers would want to do it but my mind just wouldn't react.
men mind eternity
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
feelings mind suffering
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
reality knowing mind
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.
philosophical poetry mind
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.
mind stones quagmire
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
philosophy mind age
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
past mindfulness plunge
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
hunting mind balance
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
giving mind giving-back
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
mind battle inspired
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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The workers were in the hole, ... They heard some popping sounds and they came out. They don't know if they affected the electrical service or if the electrical service went sour for some other reason.
bond
Every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.