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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.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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 strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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