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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

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