James Joyce quote about success from Ulysses - Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.
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Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them.
 James Joyce, Ulysses (1922). copy citation

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Author James Joyce
Source Ulysses
Topic success loyalty servitude
Date 1922
Language English
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Weblink https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm

Context

“—And if not? he said.
—I'll tell you how it was, Myles Crawford began. A Hungarian it was one day…
LOST CAUSES NOBLE MARQUESS MENTIONED —We were always loyal to lost causes, the professor said. Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. We were never loyal to the successful. We serve them. I teach the blatant Latin language. I speak the tongue of a race the acme of whose mentality is the maxim: time is money. Material domination. Dominus! Lord! Where is the spirituality? Lord Jesus? Lord Salisbury?” source

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