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  ...their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone--come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth.
APRIL 26. Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.  
APRIL 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

Dublin, 1904 Trieste, 1914

End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
...   Joyce, James

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