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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
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
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

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