"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him."
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Source: James Joyce (2011). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.118, Courier Corporation
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