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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

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought 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
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

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