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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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 devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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 have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
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

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

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