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

Henrik Ibsen

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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
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
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
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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 strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
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
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role

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