The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole…

James Joyce
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. ✨ Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. ✨ Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

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