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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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 strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
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
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

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