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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Henrik Ibsen

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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science

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