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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) (edit title/settings)

by James Joyce (Author) (edit contributors)

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and... read more

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  • “It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind.”
    Stephen Dedalus
  • “Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”
  • “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Make up your minds for that.”
  • “He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.”
  • “Per aspera ad astra.”
  • “Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
  • “He was alone. He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight and gayclad lightclad figures of children and girls and voices childish and girlish in the air.”
  • “Minor poets, I suppose, are above such trivial questions as the questions of universal peace.”
    Mac Cann
  • “You have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human individual.”
  • “This race and this country produced me. I shall express myself as I am.”
    Stephen Daedalus
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  • The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
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  • —We are right, he said, and the others are wrong. To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and color which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand—that is art.
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  • he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycolored and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose.
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  • —Art, said Stephen, is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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  • Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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  • What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction?
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  • her glance traveled to his corner, flattering, taunting, searching, exciting his heart.
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  • He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him.
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  • When the soul of a man is born in this country 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.
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  • Beauty expressed by the artist cannot awaken in us an emotion which is kinetic or a sensation which is purely physical. It awakens, or ought to awaken, or induces, or ought to induce, an esthetic stasis, an ideal pity or an ideal terror, a stasis called forth, prolonged and at last dissolved by what I call the rhythm of beauty.
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ONCE UPON A TIME and a very good time it was there was a moo-cow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo... His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

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This is book 3 of 93 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Board's List. (authoritative list)
This is book 57 of 98 in Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: Reader's List. (authoritative list)
This is book 95 of 113 in Book Smart Reading List. (community list)
This is book 37 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)
This is book 736 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
This is book 15 of 213 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
This book is in Kunstlerroman. (community list)
This book is in Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century. (publisher edition list)
This is book 21 of 100 in 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. (authoritative list)
This book is in Penguin Classics. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
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  1. James Joyce (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1916
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Page Count: 253

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