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16 quotes from Ulysses by James Joyce. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #4300 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
—History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
yes I said yes I will Yes.
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Love loves to love love.
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn’t probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes.
On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins.
Be just before you are generous.
What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.
Thought is the thought of thought.
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
—I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.