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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
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

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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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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