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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Henrik Ibsen

The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake 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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

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