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from a private collection A 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)

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. He believed that it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

James Joyce

James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish author. Stephen Hero, episode 25, New Directions (1944).

The passage refers to Stephen Daedalus of Joyce's unfinished manuscript, Stephen Hero. Less than half the manuscript exists, and it was published only after Joyce's death.

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