"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia."
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Source: 'Finnegans Wake' (1939) pt. 1, p. 120
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James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet known for his groundbreaking works like 'Ulysses,' which revolutionized modernist literature through innovative narrative techniques.
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