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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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

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