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

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

“it wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture”
― 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