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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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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