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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret 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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
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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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself

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