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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Henrik Ibsen

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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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

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