
Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good. But did so much good, Simon, said the little old man gravely. And thanks be to God, Johnny, said Mr Dedalus, that we lived so long and did so little harm. How sad and how beautiful! He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could. Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place. Lavender and cream and pink roses were beautiful to think of. And the cards for the first and second place and third place were beautiful colours too: pink and cream and lavender.

White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of.Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can.

It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. It awakens, or ought to awaken, or induces, or ought to induce, an esthetic stasis, an ideal pity or an ideal terror, a stasis called forth, prolonged, and at last dissolved by what I call the rhythm of beauty.

Beauty expressed by the artist cannot awaken in us an emotion which is kinetic or a sensation which is purely physical. Quotes Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. 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.Ī Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce.
