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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

Henrik Ibsen

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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

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