“A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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