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Quotation by James Joyce
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James Joyce (132)Additional Sources
from a private collectionA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"A Suave Philosophy" Daily Express (Dublin, Feb. 6, 1903)Buck Mulligan, in Ulysses (1922)Cranly, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)Related Subjects
tragedy (22) love (22) sex (7) art (7) beauty (6) lust (6) artists (6) women (6) passion (5) knowledge (5)
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Manuscript notebook composed in Paris, 1903-1904. Paris Notebook, The Critical Writings, eds. Richard Ellmann and Ellsworth Mason, Viking (1959).
Many of the entries in this notebook were later transposed into Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922).
Many of the entries in this notebook were later transposed into Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922).
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