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Sigrid Undset Quotes: I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
         

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.


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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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No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.



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All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.



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

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



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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.



The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

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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Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.



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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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Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.





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