"-Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do.
I will not servie that in which I no longer believe, wheter it call itself my home, my fathreland, or my chruch: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself ot use - silence, exile, and cunning...
-You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear.
I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too."
-James Joyce from "A portrait of the Artists as a Young Man"
I agree with it.
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