"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light."
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Source: May Antoine Maalouf, James Joyce, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1989). “James Joyce and the Romantic Temper: A Study of the Thematic Function of Byron and Shelley in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
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