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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

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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’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
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
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
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

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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