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The devil is compromise.

Henrik Ibsen

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society

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