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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing 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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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

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