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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

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life 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
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

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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