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

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness

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