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1  His words seemed to have struck some deep chord in his own nature.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  In the midst of it unluckily I made a sudden gesture of a revolutionary nature.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  This evening we shall consider for a few moments the nature of the spiritual torments of hell.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  Another nature seemed to have been lent him: the infection of the excitement and youth about him entered into and transformed his moody mistrustfulness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  Nor can nature escape from these intense and various tortures by succumbing to them for the soul is sustained and maintained in evil so that its suffering may be the greater.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  So entire and unquestionable was this sense of the divine meaning in all nature granted to his soul that he could scarcely understand why it was in any way necessary that he should continue to live.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  Every sin would then come forth from its lurking place, the most rebellious against the divine will and the most degrading to our poor corrupt nature, the tiniest imperfection and the most heinous atrocity.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  It is a base consent to the promptings of our corrupt nature to the lower instincts, to that which is gross and beast-like; and it is also a turning away from the counsel of our higher nature, from all that is pure and holy, from the Holy God Himself.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  A sense of her innocence moved him almost to pity her, an innocence he had never understood till he had come to the knowledge of it through sin, an innocence which she too had not understood while she was innocent or before the strange humiliation of her nature had first come upon her.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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