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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
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
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
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning

Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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