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In Arthur Power, Conversations with James Joyce (1974) - Joyce, James | WIST Quotations
In realism you get down to facts on which the world is based; that sudden reality which smashes romanticism into a pulp. What makes most people’s lives unhappy is some disappointed romanticism, some unrealizable or misconceived ideal. In fact you may say that idealism is the ruin of man, and…