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It is no use lying to one’s self.

Henrik Ibsen

The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
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
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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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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 no use lying to one’s self.

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