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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking

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