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

Henrik Ibsen

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN

Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSEN

Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke

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

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