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

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
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 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
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
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 go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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 majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong

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