James Joyce
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
"الكتابة بالإنجليزية هي أشد أنواع التعذيب براعةً، وقد ابتُدِعَت لذنوب ارتكبت في حيوات سابقة. وجمهور القراء الإنجليزي يفسر السبب."
James Joyce
"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
"ولو أنه قسا في حكمه عليها؟
ولو كانت حياتها مجرد سبحة بسيطة من الساعات،
حياتها بسيطة وغريبة كحياة الطير،
مرحة في الصباح، مضطربة طوال النهار، منهكة عند المغيب؟
وقلبها بسيط وعنيد كقلب الطير؟"
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
"غاية الفنان خلق الجمال. أما ما هو الجمال، فتلك مسألة أخرى."
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"أنا غدي، أو في قادم الأيام، ما أ"
James Joyce
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
"تظن أنك تهرب فتصطدم بذاتك. أطول الطرق التفافًا هو أقصرها عودةً إلى الديار."
James Joyce
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
"الشعر، حتى في أشد تجلياته خيالًا، هو دائمًا تمرد على التصنع، وثورة، بمعنى ما، على الواقع ذاته."
James Joyce
"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."
"الشيطان، في حقيقته، هو شباب المسيح الرومانسي الذي يظهر للحظة عابرة."
James Joyce
"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."
"اللامسؤولية جزء من متعة الفن كله، وهو الجزء الذي لا تستطيع المدارس إدراكه."
James Joyce
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
"كريستوفر كولومبوس، كما يعلم الجميع، يُكرمه التاريخ لأنه كان آخر من اكتشف أمريكا."
James Joyce
"A nation is the same people living in the same place."
"الأمة هي ذات الشعب يقطن ذات المكان."
James Joyce
"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
"أخشى تلك الكلمات الضخمة التي تجلب لنا الكثير من الشقاء."
James Joyce
"Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion."
"الرجال تسوسهم خطوط العقل المستقيمة، والنساء تحكمهن منحنيات العاطفة."
James Joyce
"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk."
"الجثة لحم فسد. حسناً، وما الجبن"
James Joyce
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
"مهما اهتزت اليقينيات في هذا العالم النتن، فحب الأم ثابت لا يتزعزع."
James Joyce
"A man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."
James Joyce
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
James Joyce
"To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic."
James Joyce
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