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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
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
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
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
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
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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

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