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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce
Desire, World, Arms
James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

James Joyce
Wind, Rose, Desire
James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce
Beauty, Long, Desire
James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

James Joyce
Children, Play, Desire
James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.21, Courier Dover Publications

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