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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Henrik Ibsen

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
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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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle

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