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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Henrik Ibsen

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself

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