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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch

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