"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy."
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Source: James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA
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