Quelques autres citations de Joyce:
"Absence, the highest form of presence." [à comparer à Marcel Proust, 1871-1922: "L'absence n'est-elle pas, pour qui aime, la plus certaine, la plus efficace, la plus vivace, la plus indestructible, la plus fidèle des présences?"]
"When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart." [à comparer à Shakespeare, 1564-1616: "Si un jour je meurs et qu'on m'ouvre le cœur, on pourra lire en lettres d'or: je t'aime encore."]
"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before."
"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves."
"He is cured by faith who is sick of fate."
"All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday."
"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."
"Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman."
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