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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
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
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

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