Tagged: James Joyce.
September 11th, 2012
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] [James Joyce] [Quote] [Book Quote] [1916]
August 11th, 2012
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul’s incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.
Dubliners by James Joyce

∞04:47 am, by lostinthesounds ∩11
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Dubliners] [James Joyce] [1914]
July 5th, 2012
His 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 reverie, he had heard their tale before.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

∞02:47 am, by lostinthesounds ∩10
[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] [Book Quote] [James Joyce] [Quote] [1916]
June 11th, 2012
But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
Dubliners by James Joyce

∞03:34 am, by lostinthesounds ∩92
[Book Quote] [Dubliners] [James Joyce] [Quote] [1914]
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