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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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

You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.

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