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Henrik Ibsen

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
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

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