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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
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
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
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve

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