“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

—  James Joyce , book Dubliners

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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