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5 quotes from Ulysses by James Joyce, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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…and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

— Molly Bloom (interior monologue) · James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), “Penelope” — the novel's final words

—History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— Stephen Dedalus (dialogue) · James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), “Nestor”

Love loves to love love.

— Narration (the Cyclops parodist) · James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), “Cyclops”

Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.

— Stephen Dedalus (interior monologue) · James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), “Proteus” — its opening words

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

— Stephen Dedalus (dialogue) · James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), “Scylla and Charybdis”

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