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

Henrik Ibsen

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
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
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 greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public

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