"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds."
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Source: James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.128, Wordsworth Editions
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