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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

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
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve

The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

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