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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
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
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
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves

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