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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

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value 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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right

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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