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Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

-Colleen McCullough

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Duty, The Most Indecent Of All Obsessions,

Colleen McCullough

Duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

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Helmer; but this is disgraceful. is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? nora: what do you consider is my most sacred duty? helmer: do i have to tell you that? isn't it your duty to your husband and children? nora:i have another duty, just as sacred. helmer: you can't have. what duty do you mean? nora: my duty to myself.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a christian today.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Obsessions of the orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

I dreamt and saw that life was joy. i awoke and saw that life was duty. i served and found that duty was joy. see life a duty, ellen sturgis hooper, (1816-1841) topics: beauty, duty & life i slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; i woke, and found that life was duty.

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. it is the same burden that wings are to a bird, that sails are to a ship. nothing is hard if done for love's sweet sake. the yoke of love is easy; the yoke of duty is hard. there is all the difference in the world between being drawn by love and being driven by duty. the task may be the same, but love makes everything light, and duty makes everything drudgery.

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