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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

James Joyce
Feelings, Mind, Suffering
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

James Joyce
Insomnia, Suffering, Reader
'Finnegans Wake' (1939) pt. 1, p. 120

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

James Joyce
Heaven, Suffering, Kingdoms
James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.473, Courier Dover Publications

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