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

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself

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

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