"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down."
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Source: James Joyce (1946). “Ulysses”, Modern Library
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