"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
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Source: 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (1916) ch. 5
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