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It is no use lying to one’s self.

Henrik Ibsen

Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
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
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self

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