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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

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