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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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 such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
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
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

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