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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation 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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing

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