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has everything to do with how our comprehension of space, however confined or expansive, still affords an opportunity to encounter the boundaries of the self just as they are about to give way.
Boundaries of self = boundaries of sentience
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
from “Araby”
― Dubliners
from “Araby”
― Dubliners
“When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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