![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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