“You have fettered yourself of your own free will, man—break the fetters!”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Jórunn of Veghús
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Three: The House of the Poet
“The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.”
Source: Eat and Run (2012), Ch. 12, p. 105
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