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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Henrik Ibsen

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
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 never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

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