The sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Ocean and sea

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Buck Mulligan

Author

James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 1.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

Dubliners

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James Joyce
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A Painful Case Dubliners
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Another quote from the 1920s

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

On the Value of Scepticism

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Unfounded beliefs Beliefs

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Bertrand Russell
Source
On the Value of Scepticism Sceptical Essays
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1928 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

Another quote about Ocean and sea

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

Sea-Fever

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Sailing Ocean and sea

Author

John Masefield
Source
Sea-Fever
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1902 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902, I. 1.

Current Citation

Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield, edited by Philip W. Errington. Carcanet Press, 2005, I. 1.