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

Henrik Ibsen

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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

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