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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing

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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