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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Henrik Ibsen

It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit

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