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

Henrik Ibsen

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject

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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