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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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 was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

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