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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

Henrik Ibsen

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSEN

Life Yourself
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave 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
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

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