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Henrik Ibsen

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

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