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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.

Henrik Ibsen

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society

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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