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1  He desired with all his will not to hear or see.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  A glow of desire kindled again his soul and fired and fulfilled all his body.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  Eyes, opening from the darkness of desire, eyes that dimmed the breaking east.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  Conscious of his desire she was waking from odorous sleep, the temptress of his villanelle.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  Beside the savage desire within him to realize the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  He desired till his frame shook under the strain of his desire and until the senses of his soul closed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  This word, though it is vague, is clear enough to keep away good and evil which excite desire and loathing.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  It must understand when it desires in one instant and then prolongs its own desire instant after instant, sinfully.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  He strode down the hill amid the tumult of sudden-risen vapours of wounded pride and fallen hope and baffled desire.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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13  Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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14  His throat ached with a desire to cry aloud, the cry of a hawk or eagle on high, to cry piercingly of his deliverance to the winds.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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15  Only at times, in the pauses of his desire, when the luxury that was wasting him gave room to a softer languor, the image of Mercedes traversed the background of his memory.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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16  The desire and loathing excited by improper esthetic means are really not esthetic emotions not only because they are kinetic in character but also because they are not more than physical.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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17  This young and brilliant nobleman and man of letters entered heart and soul into the ideas of our glorious founder and you know that he, at his own desire, was sent by saint Ignatius to preach to the Indians.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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