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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

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