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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.

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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
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
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk 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
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself

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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