"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
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Source: Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. James Joyce: The Critical Heritage. Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.
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