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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN

Right Side Yourself
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fair Majority Support Truth
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSEN

Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
HENRIK IBSEN

Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Stand World
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSEN

Experience Life
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
HENRIK IBSEN

Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN

Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSEN

Learning Lonely Strong
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSEN

Business Goodness Poet Starve
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
HENRIK IBSEN

Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit

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