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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
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
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

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