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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Henrik Ibsen

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
HENRIK IBSEN

Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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
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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word

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