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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side

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