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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
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
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

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