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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life 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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
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

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

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