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Each bird must sing with his own throat.

Henrik Ibsen

The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
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
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

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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