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Literature · Reflection

JAMES JOYCE ~ THE ARTIST

19 December 2011

“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

James Joyce

(1882-1941)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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