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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing

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