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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Henrik Ibsen

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
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 I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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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Decent Health People Wasted Time
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift

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