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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. — James Joyce

Novel · Magazine · Modernist literature

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce
The Egoist · 1915
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Topic
Mother's loveMothers and childrenMothers
Genre
Modernist literature
Medium
NovelMagazine
Time
1915
Person
James Joyce
Provenance
Current citation
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 5.
Original citation
Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

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