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The strongest men are the most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself

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