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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Equality Myself Sacred
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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 the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll

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