“Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
        
            
        
        
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                                James Joyce 191
Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
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                                        [Proverbs, 19:13, KJV] (KJV) 
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