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It is no use lying to one’s self.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility

It is no use lying to one’s self.

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