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

Henrik Ibsen

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred

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

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