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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
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
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
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
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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