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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
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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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War

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