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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.

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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
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
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself

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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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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