A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners Quotes.

1. "he met the eyes of others with unanswering eyes, for he felt that the spirit of beauty had folded him round like a mantle and that in revery at least he had been acquainted with nobility."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners

2. "It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners

3. "But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners

4. "Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de los otros por sí mismo, errando entre las asechanzas del mundo."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners

5. "The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners

6. "He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood. Beside the savage desire within him to realise the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred."
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners

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