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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

Henrik Ibsen

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction

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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