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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage

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