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Henrik Ibsen

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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk 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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle

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