“Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.”

—  James Joyce , book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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