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To live is to war with trolls.

Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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 devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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

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