James Joyce

"He felt as if his body had become a prayer."

"The mind dries up if you do not use it."

"Every detail of life is significant, worthy of examination and description."

"I discovered that it was necessary to move into the world in order to move the world."

"He had a sudden conviction that he was being followed."

"The wings of his wit were still folded."

"That was the way to begin life—to open the shutters of your soul."

"All things are big with jest and to get at the heart of it you have only to laugh."

"He sat beside her in the darkness, listening to the rain."

"The moment you realise the value of life is the moment you will find the good in all its forms."

"The heavy odours of the window-pane, the warmth of the room."

"They lived and laughed and loved and left."

"He felt that there was something within him which he could not express."

"The truth is that everything that is said these days is heard by everybody."

"His heart had withered within him like a flower left in a dark room."

"He knew not where to turn, and his mind was a wild hive of bees."

"The visions returned, weaving new lights and colours into the tissue of the soul."

"He loved the old granite and the shadows that fell upon it."

"The moment of surrender is the moment of salvation."

"He found in the works of the middle-aged women a distinction and a dignity."

"The beauty of life is always in the details."

"To be silent is not to be dumb."

"He had never felt more alive than in those moments of utmost despair."

"The world is harder and the people are stronger."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune."

"He realised that there was nothing new under the sun."

"The past is always with us, shaping every moment."

"He went the way he had come, haunted by the thought of her."

"One could say that he was born to suffer."

"The greatest power is the power of forgetting."