"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state."
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Source: James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.59, Oxford University Press, USA
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