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

Henrik Ibsen

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
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
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
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
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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 you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself

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