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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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, 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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