"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species."
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Source: James Joyce (2016). “A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (Awakening of Stephen Dedalus): An Autobiographical Novel from the Author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, Dubliners, Stephen Hero, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.173, e-artnow
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