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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

Henrik Ibsen

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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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 community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

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