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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
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
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

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