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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing 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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

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