“—I mean, said Stephen, that I was not myself as I am now, as I had to become.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“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
“You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“—Dedalus, you're an antisocial being, wrapped up in yourself. I'm not. I'm a democrat and I'll work and act for social liberty and equality among all classes and sexes in the United States of the Europe of the future.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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