non serviam

The Latin phrase "non serviam" was spoken by Satan as he refused to serve God. It translates into "I will not serve." Lucifer chose to reign in hell than submit in heaven. Stephen Daedalus in James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", said it after his decision to follow the life of an artist, rather than that prescribed to him by the Roman Catholic Church. Who are you serving?

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