and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood..

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday..

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present..

Shut your eyes and see..

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus..

Fall if you will, but rise you must..

Absence, the highest form of presence..

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient tem….

It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off….

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He….

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy..

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed..

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life o….

Life is too short to read a bad book..

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?.

The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted….

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger..

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted..

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of ….

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..

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 t….