Have read little and understood less.
("A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man")
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In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.James Joyce
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
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Too excited to be genuinely happy
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That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. It will calm my heart. My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
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A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..
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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
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