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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen

Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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

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