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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

I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
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
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
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
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke

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

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