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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

I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
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
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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 in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

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