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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Henrik Ibsen

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

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