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Henrik Ibsen

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
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
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.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
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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General Nature Possession Power Sea
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing

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