"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question."
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Source: James Joyce (2013). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.134, Courier Corporation
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