Book: Ulysses

Why can't you kiss a man without first marrying him.

If I could pay a handsome young man to have me and him, a young boy would like me.

When they get sick, so weak whimpers need us to recover, his nose will bleed, so you'll think about it. Oh, what a tragedy.

What kind of revenge, if any? Murder - never, for evil cannot be corrected by evil.

If he smiled, what would he smile at? Thoughts that each one who penetrates thinks that he has penetrated first, while he is only the last member in a series of antecedents, even if he is the first in a series of successors, and that each imagines that he is the first, the last, and the one and only, then as he is not the first, not the last and not the only one in a series that begins at infinity and continues to infinity.

As a physicist, he realized that out of 70 years of full human life, 20 years pass in a dream. As a philosopher, he knew that by the end of any allotted period of life for any person, only an infinitesimal fraction of his desires has time to come true. As a physiologist, he believed in the artificial smoothing of harmful factors that act mainly during sleep.

At a turning point in human existence, he longed to correct many circumstances of public life, the consequences of inequality, greed and discord between peoples.

How successful was his attempt at direct teaching? She did not catch completely, but partially, she listened with interest, comprehended with surprise, repeated with diligence, remembered with difficulty, easily forgot, repeatedly remembered with apprehension, repeated again with a mistake.

She endlessly, at various intervals, asked how to correctly write the second of the capital letters in the name of the city in America, New York. She was poorly versed in the complexities of domestic politics and the balance of power in foreign policy. When adding up the numbers of accounts, she often resorted to the help of her fingers.

What domestic problem often worried him as much as, if not more than, any other? What to do with our wives.

Originality, allowing you to produce an effect, may not lead to success, however.

Only I aspire to other distances.

What in the water delighted Bloom, the water-lover, the water-bearer of the water-bearer, when he returned to the stove? Its versatility; democratic equality and fidelity to one's nature and striving for one's own level; the vastness of its oceans, its immeasurable depth.

Both, having received early home hardening and having inherited a daring propensity for dissent and opposition, rejected many generally accepted religious, national, social and moral doctrines. Both recognized the alternately stimulating and stupefying influence of the magnetic attraction of the sexes.