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2 Feb, 12 tweets, 3 min read

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“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.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: ...

“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Let my country die for me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend...We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives...brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.”

“Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly...His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen...You love a certain person. And this person loves that other person because everybody loves somebody but God loves everybody.” Joyce, Ulysses

“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, ...

“We can't change the world, but we can change the subject”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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3 Feb

Norman Percevel Rockwell (💎 February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture.

Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades.

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3 Feb

The Problem We All Live With, 1964
~ by Norman Rockwell 💎 #Botd 1894.

An iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, ...

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2 Feb

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality...”
~ James Joyce

“Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world,and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy...these [realities] alone give and sustain life.” JJ

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...”
~ J. Joyce

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2 Feb

"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."

~ James Joyce 💎 #Botd 1882

"Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it."
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"There's many a true word spoken in jest."
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"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."

~ Langston Hughes 💎 #Botd 1901

"I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?"
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"The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it."
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