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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet

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