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To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.
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socialism
responsibility
relationship
family
friendship
community
duties
rules
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Robin Hobb |
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I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways.
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fate
responsibility
freedom
life-lessons
duties
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Robin Hobb |
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"We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, but official duties left him no time for such a task. He had learned to curb his own wishes. Once he remarked to one of his tutors: "It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. But I was exactly the same when I was still a student. We study and work, don't waste much time, and think we may rightly call ourselves industrious-but we are scarcely conscious of all we could do, all that we might make of our freedom. Then we suddenly receive a call from the hierarchy, we are needed, are given a teaching assignment, a mission, a post, and from then on move up to a higher one, and unexpectedly find ourselves caught in a network of duties that tightens the more we try to move inside it. All the tasks are in themselves small, but each one has to be carried out at its proper hour, and the day has far more tasks than hours. That is well; one would not want it to be different. But if we ever think, between classrooms, Archives, secretariat, consulting room, meetings, and official journeys-if we ever think of the freedom we possessed and have lost, the freedom for self-chosen tasks, for unlimited, far-flung studies, we may well feel the greatest yearning for those days, and imagine that if we ever had such freedom again we would fully enjoy its pleasures and potentialities."
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time
youth
freedom
possibilities
duties
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Hermann Hesse |
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Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
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solitude
possessions
duties
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Patricia Highsmith |
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As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
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responsibility
freedom
reality
truth
duties
duty
emancipation
end
obligation
outcome
responsibilities
sever
ties
release
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Robin Hobb |
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"Born as we are into a fallen race of sinners, we all tend to be selfish. We want things our way. We want what we want when we want it. Good parents do their best to train and discipline that selfishness out of us, and good teachers and pastors reinforce the lesson. But that self-centered tendency is deep-rooted, and it almost always requires hand-to-hand combat in the arena of life where the wants of self are pitted against the needs of others. Marriage and family provides this arena. Family is the perfect challenge to selfishness. Living in a family demands that I be sensitive to the needs of others. It demands my time. It intrudes on my wants. It tramples my ego. It virtually obliterates the concept of leisure. What a blessing!
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marriage
family
duties
selfishness
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Michael W Smith |