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“Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country 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
“If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything.”
― Cosmopolitan Greetings
― Cosmopolitan Greetings
“The sad quiet grey-blue glow of the dying day came through the window and the open door, covering over and allaying quietly a sudden instinct of remorse in Stephen's heart.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The novelist Thomas Wolfe, recalling a lifelong struggle with illness, wrote in his last letter, “I’ve made a long voyage and been to a strange country, and I’ve seen the dark man very close.” I had not made the journey myself, and I had only seen the darkness reflected in the eyes of others. But surely, it was the most sublime moment of my clinical life to have watched that voyage in reverse, to encounter men and women returning from the strange country—to see them so very close, clambering back.”
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E. Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at E. Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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