“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”

—  James Joyce

Exiles (1915), Act II http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/exiles2.html

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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