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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Henrik Ibsen

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

Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
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
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
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

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