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Let my country die for me.

Let my country die for me.

James Joyce
Country, Dies
James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.387, Book House

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

James Joyce
Country, Men, Self
James Joyce (1959). “Critical writings”

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

James Joyce
Country, Anger, Self
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.2236, e-artnow

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

James Joyce
Country, Men, Light
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916) ch. 5

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

James Joyce
Country, Writing, Men
"A brief survey of the short story part 32: James Joyce" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

James Joyce
Country, Race, This Life
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.170, e-artnow

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

James Joyce
Country, Art, Style
James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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