Laura Baas

“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.”
― James Joyce, 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.”
― James Joyce, 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.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man