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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Henrik Ibsen

In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself

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