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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

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
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
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live

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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