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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
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

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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