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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing

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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