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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.

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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
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
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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Known Myself Right Yourself
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self

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