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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
HENRIK IBSEN

Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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

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