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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
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
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 great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.

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