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

Henrik Ibsen

When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life 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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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

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

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