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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage

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