Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The emperor says that life is smoke, a vapour, and St. James in his Epistle is of the same mind”
The Philosophy of Antoninus
Context: The emperor says that life is smoke, a vapour, and St. James in his Epistle is of the same mind; that the world is full of envious, jealous, malignant people, and a man might be well content to get out of it.
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