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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?

Henrik Ibsen

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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

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