Tao Te Ching
Ulysses
By James Joyce
One of the most important works of modern literature and one of the greatest works in all history; Ulysses—when first written—couldn't find a publisher for more than a year, and then only a tiny edition in French followed by 10 small editions over the next 12 years. it retells Homer’s story of the Odyssey with modern symbolism, terms, and allusions. Leopold Bloom is Odysseus (Joyce's friend Leopold Popper), Molly Bloom Penelope (Joyce’s wife, Nora Barnacle), and Stephen Dedalus Telemachus (James Joyce). The subject of a US obscenity trial in 1921, banned in the UK until 1936, and burned by the US post office throughout the 1920’s, but—because of momentous judicial decisions—the US became the first English-Speaking country where it was freely available. Considered the best example of stream-of-consciousness writing, it describes deep, archetypal experiences of universal significance with unprecedented virtuosity, creative style, and captivating symbolism.
Quotes from Ulysses
“'Tis the loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind.”
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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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“He who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord. Thus spake Zarathustra.”
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“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
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40. Returning
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“Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
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“Shut your eyes and see.”
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1. The Unnamed
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“time's ruins build eternity's mansions.”
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43. No Effort, No Trace
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“wellpleased pleasers, curled conquistadores… I was a Flower of the mountains yes… and how he kissed me… and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes… and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his hear twas going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
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“You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly”
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“"secret sewers of vice ... canalized in its flood of unimaginable thoughts, images, and pornographic words, revolting blasphemies [which] debases and perverts and degrades the noble gift of imagination"”
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“What is so staggering about Ulysses is the fact that behind a thousand veils nothing lies hidden; that it turns neither toward the mind nor toward the world, but, as cold as the moon looking on from cosmic space, allows the drama of growth, being, and decay to pursue its course.”
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“now and again there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar. The truly remarkable thing about Ulysses, for instance, is the commonplaceness of its material.”
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“I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.”
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“Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe—immense in daring, terrific in disaster.”
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