"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book."
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Source: James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.25, Oxford Paperbacks
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