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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is 
so abhorrent to the church as a human being-


“Dubliner” seems to me to have some meaning and
 I doubt whether the same can be said for
 such words as “Londoner” and “Parisian”
 both of which have been used by writers as titles.
 From time to time I see in publishers’ 
lists announcements of books on Irish subjects, 
so that I think people might be willing to 
pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope,
 floats over my stories.-

Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, 
husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, 
companion in arms of the Greek warriors 
around Troy, and King of Ithaca. 
He was subjected to many trials, 
but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... 
he is a complete man as well, a good man.-


All things are inconstant except 
the faith in the soul, which changes all 
things and fills their inconstancy with light,
 but though I seem to be driven out of
 my country as a misbeliever
 I have found no man yet
 with a faith like mine-

"He tried to weigh his soul to see 
if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the
 dominant note of his temperament, he thought,
 but it was melancholy tempered by recurrences 
of faith and resignation and simple joy. 
If he could give expression to it 
in a book of poems perhaps men would listen."
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One by one they were all becoming shades. 
Better pass boldly into that other world, 
in the full glory of some passion,
 than fade and wither dismally with age.
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One great part of every human existence
 is passed in a state which cannot be 
rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, 
cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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