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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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 am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible 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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve

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