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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

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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
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
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself

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

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