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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.

Henrik Ibsen

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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

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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