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James Joyce1882–1941

But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life.
—What? says Alf.
—Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.

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Ulysses (1922), Part II, Episode 12 (3 of 3)

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