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

Henrik Ibsen

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right

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

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