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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.

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.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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 greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve

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