It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
James JoyceHis 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.
James JoyceHe lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
James JoyceIf Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend.’ Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.
James JoyceWere all important in god's eyes.
James JoyceHis heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
James JoyceAnd when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
James JoyceHe thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
James JoyceTag: heart sick homesickness
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
James Joycehe said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the tea...
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