“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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