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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Henrik Ibsen

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
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself

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