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Quotes About Consciousness

Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies.
~ James Joyce
It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything.
~ James Joyce
What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?
~ James Joyce
O, undoubtedly yes, and very potable so, but one who deeper thinks will always bear in the baccbuccus of his mind that this downright there you are and there it is is only all in his eye. Why?
~ James Joyce
And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.
~ James Joyce
Life seemed to him a gift; the statement 'I am alive' seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.
~ James Joyce
O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics from plane to plane of ever rarer and paler twilight, radiating swift eddies to the last verges of a universe ever vaster, farther and more impalpable.
~ James Joyce
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.
~ James Joyce
Into the wikeawades warld from sleep we are passing.
~ James Joyce
After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.
~ James Joyce
Ineluctable modality of the visible...
~ James Joyce
excrementitious intelligence...
~ James Joyce
Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!
~ James Joyce
İnsan düÅŸüncenin bask?s? alt?ndaki bir müziÄŸi dinlemekte olduÄŸunu san?r.
~ James Joyce
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~ James Joyce
To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.
~ James Joyce
Neither he nor she had had any such adventure before and neither was conscious of any incongruity. Little by little he entangled his thoughts with hers. He lent her books, provided her with ideas, shared his intellectual life with her. She listened to all. Sometimes in return for his theories, she gave out some fact of her own life. With almost maternal solicitude, she urged him to let his nature open to the full; she became his confessor.
~ James Joyce
The long eyelids beat and lift: a burning needleprick stings and quivers in the velvet iris.
~ James Joyce
Dinle! O iç burkucu bungunluk çöktü. Dinle!-Akl?n ya da gövdenin böylesine eylemlerine saÄŸl?ks?z denebileceÄŸine inanm?yorum.- KonuÅŸuyor o. SoÄŸuk y?ld?zlar?n ötesinden gelen c?l?z bir ses. SaÄŸduyunun sesi. KonuÅŸ bakal?m! Aman,konuÅŸ yine,ayd?nlat beni!Bu sesi hiç duymam??t?m.
~ James Joyce
Tomorrow has no more existence than yesterday, but you can always control now. We live in a series of nows. Think about now.
~ James Lee Burke
At four-twenty every morning I wake and have no idea where or who I am.
~ James Lee Burke
When I closed my eyes, a lantern lit up the inside of my head, as if I had punched a hypodermic loaded with morphine into my arm.
~ James Lee Burke
He might be asleep, but even asleep he looked like he knew more than most guys awake
~ James M. Cain
It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.
~ James McBride