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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

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fear Friendship Restriction
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSEN

Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSEN

Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
HENRIK IBSEN

Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN

Right Side Yourself
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSEN

Greatness Growth Memories
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSEN

Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Brief Himself Man Responsibility
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSEN

Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSEN

Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
HENRIK IBSEN

Happiness Himself Life Man
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beautiful Freedom Home Life
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
HENRIK IBSEN

Myself Run Ship
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Difference Oneself
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSEN

Marriage Mindset Yourself

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