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Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.
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catharsis
obligation
release
river
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing? You answered... I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to move frees me from the obligation to act. You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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liars
obligation
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Orson Scott Card |
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Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.
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duty
freedom
obligation
social-pressure
stephen-maturin
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Patrick O'Brian |
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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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duties
duty
emancipation
end
freedom
obligation
outcome
reality
release
responsibilities
responsibility
sever
ties
truth
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Robin Hobb |
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the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
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irony
marriage
obligation
sex
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Jonathan Franzen |
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I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.
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obligation
talent
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Ursula K. Le Guin |