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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.

Henrik Ibsen

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
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
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man

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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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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