“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
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“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“You can still die when the sun is shining.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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