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The greatest victory is defeat.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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

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