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"The art of everyday living demands that a person has the wisdom to process a potentially negative experience in a different way, transcending the problem rather than being limited by it. Organ by organ, page by page, Joyce is intent upon his creation of a new species of man."

"Even in psychoanalysis, as in the sacrament of confession, the disclosure of one person's innermost secrets to another had been made in a darkened space: but Bloom's communing with himself is done mostly in daylight and in public places. To each and every detail of the surrounding world he gives that close attention which is the nearest modern equivalent of prayer."

"It was the fact that words were read an an increasing speed—a speed far greater than that possible in oral delivery—which troubled Joyce and other moderns. The flaneur's languid gait on the boulevards was an attempt to decelerate a the modern world, by reducing quick walking to a slow crawl."

"In the case of the privatization of public land in modern Britain, Polanyian social dystopia is as plain to see as Smithian economic rentierism."

"What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity."

"First dirty, then make clean."

"In this way I disposed of the things I loved but could no longer keep, because of new loves."

"I want to be there a little before the plunge, close for the last time the old hatch on top of me, say goodbye to the holds where I have lived, go down with my refuge. I was always sentimental."

"Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made."

"That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine." lol

"That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speak- ing as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine." lol

"That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speak- ing as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine." lol