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They lived and laughed and loved and left.

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

James Joyce

Love, Life, Positive Thinking

James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics

Love loves to love love.

James Joyce

Love, Life, Funny Love

Ulysses (1922)

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Life, Spiritual, Mistake

Ulysses (1922)

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

Inspirational, Life, Running

James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.

James Joyce

Love, Life, Fleeting

James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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.

James Joyce

Life, Fall, Snow

Dubliners "The Dead" (1914)

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

James Joyce

Love, Life, Ocean

James Joyce (1992). “Poems and Exiles”, ePenguin

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

James Joyce

Life, Art, Believe

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

He 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 Joyce

Life, Distance, Reflection

James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1533, e-artnow

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

James Joyce

Life, Reality, Race

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)