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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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 is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing 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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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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