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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society 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.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Sold Time Value Yourself

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