"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
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Source: James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks
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