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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Henrik Ibsen

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself

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