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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
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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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle

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