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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Henrik Ibsen

I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
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 no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

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