I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.More James Joyce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.More James Joyce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.More James Joyce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.More James Joyce quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More James Joyce quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]