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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
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 no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self

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