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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
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

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