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

Henrik Ibsen

The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
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 man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live

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

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