His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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James Joyce quotes & passages
1 passage by James Joyce, from Dubliners. James Joyce died in 1941, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941). Wrote Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
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