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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
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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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
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
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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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

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