James Joyce
Irish · 1882–1941
Irish novelist and short story writer whose experimental masterworks Ulysses and Finnegans Wake revolutionized the modern novel.
Wikipedia ↗“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.”
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Dubliners, "The Dead" ↗ (1914)
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
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“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.”
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“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
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Ulysses ↗ (1922)
“...and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
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