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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSEN

Happiness Love Pleasant 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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
HENRIK IBSEN

Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution

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