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

Henrik Ibsen

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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 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
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
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself

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

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