I am a most unhappy man. I have been reduced to a state of utter destitution. I am a pauper. I have no money, no clothes, no shoes, no home, no wife, no children, no friends, no hope, no health, no strength, no courage, no good spirits, no anything.
— James Joyce Modern

Ulysses, modernist literature

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Letter to Nora Barnacle

Date / Period

1904

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Humorous

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/763.James_Joyce

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