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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science

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