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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory

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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