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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
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  2. Slavoj Žižek _ In Defense of Lost Causes

    In Kant's description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act "beyond the pleasure principle," ignoring the pursuit of pleasures. For Lacan, exactly the same description holds for desire, which is why enjoyment is not something that comes naturally to the subject, as a realization of her inner potential, but is the content of a traumatic superego injunction.
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a pain at the heart.
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  4. Anonymous _ Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم

    And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out {from every difficulty}.And He will provide him from {sources} he never could imagine.
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  5. Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins: By Kate

    He preferred solitary pursuits, and being a member of a group seemed rather dutiful, but he could do dutiful and somebody had to or the world would fall apart."
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  6. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you."He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?"She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win."Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out.""And you'll know?""You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
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  8. David Baldacci _ Hell's Corner

    -"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money."Stone said nothing.-"Why then? God and country?"-"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President."-"What then?"-"So I can look at myself in the mirror.
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  9. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.
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  10. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    . . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
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  11. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
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  12. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?
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