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1  In heart you are an Irish man but your pride is too powerful.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  No king or emperor on this earth has the power of the priest of God.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  A power, akin to that which had often made anger or resentment fall from him, brought his steps to rest.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  It gave him an intense sense of power to know that he could, by a single act of consent, in a moment of thought, undo all that he had done.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  The world for all its solid substance and complexity no longer existed for his soul save as a theorem of divine power and love and universality.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  And let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  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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8  The voice of the director urging upon him the proud claims of the church and the mystery and power of the priestly office repeated itself idly in his memory.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  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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10  Even that night as he stumbled homewards along Jones's Road he had felt that some power was divesting him of that sudden-woven anger as easily as a fruit is divested of its soft ripe peel.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  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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12  He waited in fear, his soul pining within him, praying silently that death might not touch his brow as he passed over the threshold, that the fiends that inhabit darkness might not be given power over him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3