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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an al

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“Absence, the highest form of presence.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Absence, Presence

“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 on…”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Service, Belief, expression, Art

“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 call 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 defence the onl…”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Politics, Belief, Principles, Values

“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Thinking of You

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Crush, Love at First Sight, In love

“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 on…”

— James Joyce, amazon.com

Tagged: Silence, Exile, Pretension, emigration, obstinacy