"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime."
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Source: James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics
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