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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

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