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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.

Henrik Ibsen

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself

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