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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.

Henrik Ibsen

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves

When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.

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