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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Henrik Ibsen

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself

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