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The greatest victory is defeat.

Henrik Ibsen

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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself

The greatest victory is defeat.

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