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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
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
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
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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 believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science

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