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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
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
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
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
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 am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

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