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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henrik Ibsen

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
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
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
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

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