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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

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