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Henrik Ibsen

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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 forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society

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