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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State

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