“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: 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 to use???silence, exile and cunning.”

“Os diré lo que voy a hacer y lo que no voy a hacer. No voy a servir a aquello en lo que ya no creo, aunque se llame mi hogar, mi patria o mi iglesia: e intentaré expresarme de algún modo vital o artístico tan libre y ampliamente como pueda, usando para mi defensa las únicas armas que me permito usar???el silencio, el exilio y la astucia.”

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)