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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!

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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word

I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!

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