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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
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
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please

Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

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