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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Henrik Ibsen

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing

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