James Joyce

"The hero of my youth has an unpleasant surprise in store for him."

"Imagination is memory."

"She gave him all the secrets of her inner life."

"Love is the most beautiful of all relations and the most terrible."

"I will not say that your life is less interesting."

"Every image enters the spiritual atmosphere about the object from which it has been precipitated."

"We are his instruments."

"The note of banishment, banishment from home, sounds uninterruptedly from The Odyssey of Homerus to the crisis of the intimate soul."

"He was a curious mixture of shrewdness and credulity."

"People think they have imagination because they can imagine that the other person is thinking about them."

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

"The more I think about it, the more I realize this room is the same room I've always remembered."

"Obey the law of the land and live under it."

"A change of air will do me all the good in the world."

"His heart sank within him coldly."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"Every life is in many days only a few important hours."

"You can't have a laugh without having a think."

"I don't love my life, but I live it."

"The bond between them was not love at all."

"All great events emerge from the simple acts of courage."

"Facts are the air of all action. Without them, you are swimming in dreams."

"The artist is a medium between different planes of being."

"His mind was a prodigy of organisation."

"Even the most superstitious man becomes rational in the presence of death."

"We are the music while the music lasts."

"Once you are over the hill, you pick up speed."

"I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of the words in the sentence."

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself."

"The demand to give up illusions about the condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."