1. “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Mooreen! And I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower 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
2. “Love between men and women is face to face. But love between men is back to back. It is a long, long way round. But they will get there. They will.” – Stephen Dedalus
3. “The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.” – Stephen Dedalus
4. “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – Stephen Dedalus
5. “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” – Stephen Dedalus
6. “For every man there is always a sort of previous ideal, always some influence which has shaped and perfected him.” – Stephen Dedalus
7. “We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.” – Stephen Dedalus
8. “Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – Stephen Dedalus
9. “I am the servant of two masters, an English and an Italian.” – Stephen Dedalus
10. “I am not a servant of the people. I am a servant of the divine.” – Stephen Dedalus
11. “There are no more actors. The play is over.” – Stephen Dedalus
12. “The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” – Stephen Dedalus
13. “I am the ghost of Roger Casement. I am the shadow of a shade.” – Stephen Dedalus
14. “The final payment is made when the soul is paid its wages in full.” – Stephen Dedalus
15. “It is easy to see the beginning of things, and harder to see the ends.” – Stephen Dedalus
16. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” – Stephen Dedalus
17. “What is the root of all these angers, all these anguishes?” – Stephen Dedalus
18. “The sun, the heart of our system, is a great nuclear furnace.” – Stephen Dedalus
19. “The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” – Stephen Dedalus
20. “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” – Stephen Dedalus
21. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Stephen Dedalus
22. “The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.” – Stephen Dedalus
23. “The mind of man is a curious thing. It is capable of both great beauty and great ugliness.” – Stephen Dedalus
24. “The only thing that is not transient is the human mind.” – Stephen Dedalus
25. “The most beautiful things in the world are not things. They are only the reflections of things.” – Stephen Dedalus
26. “The only thing that is eternal is the human spirit.” – Stephen Dedalus
27. “The only true happiness comes from experiencing life to the fullest.” – Stephen Dedalus
28. “The only true wisdom is in living life to the fullest.” – Stephen Dedalus
