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The man-at-arms is the only man.

Henrik Ibsen

The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
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
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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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 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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society

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