I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
HENRIK IBSENWhat 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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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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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