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The greatest victory is defeat.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
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
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
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
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

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