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A friend married is a friend lost.

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

A friend married is a friend lost.

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