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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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

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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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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