“To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. A wild angel appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“His eyes were dimmed with tears, and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“What is dark within me, illumine.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
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