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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task

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