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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
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

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