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

Henrik Ibsen

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
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
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation

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

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