— Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?
— I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish writer, poet

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ch. 5 (1916)
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