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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
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
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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

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