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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Source: Stephen Dedalus, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ch. 5, 1916.
-- James Joyce, (Feb 2 1882-1941), Irish novelist, poet, playwright; He was best known for his novels of subtle, frank portraits of human nature; wrote Ulysses, 1922; Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, 1914.

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