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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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
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
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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 courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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