If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.James Joyce
According to his brother Stanislaus . . . 'Unhappiness was like a vice.' He was cold and distant except with those closest to him, but when, on his mother's death, he discovered a bundle of letters that his father had written to her before they were married, he spent the whole afternoon reading them 'with as little compunction as a doctor or a lawyer . . . puts questions.' When he had finished, Stanislaus asked him 'Well' 'Nothing,' James Joyce answered curtly and rather contemptuously. Nothing, thought Stanislaus, for the young poet with a mission, but clearly something for the woman who had kept them all those years of neglect and poverty.
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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
James Joyce
While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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What did that mean, to kiss You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek and they made a tiny little noise kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.
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