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

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
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
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
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
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

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

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