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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Henrik Ibsen

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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
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
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

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