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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble

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