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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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 man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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

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