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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Henrik Ibsen

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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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 thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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