"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived."
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Source: 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916) ch. 5
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