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

Henrik Ibsen

I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
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
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction

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

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