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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.

Henrik Ibsen

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Sold Time Value Yourself
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
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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

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