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

Henrik Ibsen

When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk

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