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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul 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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
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
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
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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.

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