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James Joyce
Age: 58 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 2
Died: 1941
Died: January 13
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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Zeus
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Eyes

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I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
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O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
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She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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