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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

Henrik Ibsen

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

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