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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Henrik Ibsen

Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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

Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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