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

Henrik Ibsen

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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
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
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
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

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