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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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
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
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society

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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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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