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As you are now so once were we.

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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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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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I'll tickle his catastrophe.
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Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
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Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
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