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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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

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