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

Henrik Ibsen

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love

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

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