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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
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
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
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
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

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