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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
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
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
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth

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