"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out."
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Source: James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions
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