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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style

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