"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time."
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Source: James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.718, Simon and Schuster
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