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All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

Sigrid Undset

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Sigrid Undset
Age: 67 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 20
Died: 1949
Died: June 10
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Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
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I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.
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Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.
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Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
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The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
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All fires burn out at last.
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The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.
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It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.
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All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
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Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
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No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
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I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
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One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
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Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
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In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.
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God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
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Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.
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