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"My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?"
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James JoyceI confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the — James Joyce
"I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul."
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works
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"You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman."
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"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."
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"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
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"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
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"He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?"
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