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

Henrik Ibsen

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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

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