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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

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