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Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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