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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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