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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life

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