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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing

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