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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

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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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
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

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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