Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the n — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.

— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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