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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value 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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking

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