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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

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