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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.

Henrik Ibsen

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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
HENRIK IBSEN

Friendship Live Myself Need
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Sold Time Value Yourself
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
HENRIK IBSEN

Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
HENRIK IBSEN

Mindset Myself Society

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