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1  His mind was waking slowly to a tremulous morning knowledge, a morning inspiration.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  The chaos in which his ardour extinguished itself was a cold indifferent knowledge of himself.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  Gradually, as his soul was enriched with spiritual knowledge, he saw the whole world forming one vast symmetrical expression of God's power and love.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  He would hold his secret knowledge and secret power, being as sinless as the innocent, and he would be a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  He listened in reverent silence now to the priest's appeal and through the words he heard even more distinctly a voice bidding him approach, offering him secret knowledge and secret power.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  A sense of her innocence moved him almost to pity her, an innocence he had never understood till he had come to the knowledge of it through sin, an innocence which she too had not understood while she was innocent or before the strange humiliation of her nature had first come upon her.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  Divine justice insists that the understanding of those miserable wretches be fixed continually on the sins of which they were guilty, and moreover, as saint Augustine points out, God will impart to them His own knowledge of sin, so that sin will appear to them in all its hideous malice as it appears to the eyes of God Himself.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  Company, elsewhere a source of comfort to the afflicted, will be there a continual torment: knowledge, so much longed for as the chief good of the intellect, will there be hated worse than ignorance: light, so much coveted by all creatures from the lord of creation down to the humblest plant in the forest, will be loathed intensely.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  The growth and knowledge of two years of boyhood stood between then and now, forbidding such an outlet: and all day the stream of gloomy tenderness within him had started forth and returned upon itself in dark courses and eddies, wearying him in the end until the pleasantry of the prefect and the painted little boy had drawn from him a movement of impatience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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