When the soul of a man is born in this country 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.
一个人的灵魂诞生在这个国度时,就有罗网向它撒来,阻止它飞翔。你对我谈民族、语言、宗教。我将试着飞越这些罗网。
— James Joyce · A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) · Chapter V —