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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
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
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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