"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."
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Source: James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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