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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Henrik Ibsen

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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

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