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I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church.

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“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church.”

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Stephen Dedalus declares that inherited loyalties will not command him once he no longer believes in them, tying independence to artistic self-definition.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Project Gutenberg #4217. Stephen says this to Cranly near the end of the novel; it is a fictional character’s program of artistic and personal independence, not a universal rule.

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