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The strong must learn to be lonely.

Henrik Ibsen

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy

The strong must learn to be lonely.

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