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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.

Henrik Ibsen

The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction

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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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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