A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty…

James Joyce
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A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. ✨ James Joyce (1992). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p.132, Wordsworth Editions
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