The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
— James Joyce Modern

Ulysses, modernist literature

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Date / Period

1916

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Controversial

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40293-silence-exile-and-cunning

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