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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

Henrik Ibsen

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
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
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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