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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life 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
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
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
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant 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

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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