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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.

Henrik Ibsen

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need

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