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“By his monstrous way of life, he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him. He could respond to no earthly or human appeal, dumb and insensible to the call of summer and gladness and companionship, wearied and dejected by his father's voice. He could scarcely recognize as his own thoughts, and repeated slowly to himself:
- I am Stephen Dedalus”
― James Joyce

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“He had not died but had faded out like a film in the Sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of existence for he no longer existed.”
― James Joyce