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James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet

1882–1941

38 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Art.

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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (2 of 3)In context
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 only arms I allow myself to use⁠—silence, exile and cunning.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context

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