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.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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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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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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