'The soul is born,' he said vaguely, 'first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. 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.'
Davin knocked the ashes from his pipe.
'Too deep for me, Stevie,' he said. 'But a man's country comes first. Ireland first, Stevie. You can be a poet or a mystic after.'
'Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.'
—James A. A. Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter V
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