Sunday, April 30, 2006

What a pity - a Portrait

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce


- Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human suffer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause. - 207

I find it interesting although I am not sure that I understand these definitions clearly. More an artist's way to connect emotions, I would say.


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