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...and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot As Stephen questions whether or not his repentance and devotions served the purpose of expiating his sins, he learns t ....

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... faced since his youth. As the priest talks to Stephen, Stephen remembers details of his own sins: a delicate and sinful perfume....the brittle texture of a womans stocking. He also remembers how his masters at Clongowes and Belvedere taught him christian doctrine and urged him to lead a good life and...led him back to grace once he fell short of Gods glory. Stephens first calling, to become a priest, has appeal, but his epiphany lets him know that his true calling, instead, deals with finally knowing the solitude that he always faced. Stephen considers the many aspects of his priestly vocation: great power, sinless innocence, and the pio ...