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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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
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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman

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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