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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing 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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

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