"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."
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Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)
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