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Henrik Ibsen

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
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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 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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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

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