“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce191
Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
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“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”
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“He dooms himself. He is his own sad jest.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: And from above a voice fused half in iron
Half in irony gives man a dreadful choice.
The role is his, it says, Man makes and loads his own strange dice,
They sum at his behest,
He dooms himself. He is his own sad jest.
Let go? Let be?
Why do you ask this gift from Me?
When, trussed and bound and nailed,
You sacrifice your life, your liberty
You hang yourself upon the tenterhook.
Pull free!