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

Henrik Ibsen

The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
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
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself

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

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