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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Henrik Ibsen

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 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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

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