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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Henrik Ibsen

The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

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