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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN

Right Side Yourself
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Right Yourself
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSEN

Majority Myself Revolution
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Man Science Style
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
HENRIK IBSEN

Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
HENRIK IBSEN

Himself Injustice Man Worst

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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