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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

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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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 man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World

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