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The devil is compromise.

Henrik Ibsen

What 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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Fair Majority Support Truth
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
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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Human Myself Responsibility Role
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth

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