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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Henrik Ibsen

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
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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Friendship Lying Oneself

People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

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