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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

Henrik Ibsen

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing

Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.

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