James Joyce quote about desire from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.
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“ Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye. ”
 James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). copy citation

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Author James Joyce
Source A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Topic desire reflex instinct
Date 1916
Language English
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James Joyce quote about desire from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.
James Joyce quote about desire from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.