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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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State

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