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

Henrik Ibsen

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
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
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage

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