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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!

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSEN

Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Sold Time Value Yourself
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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

Deal Demand Life Right
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life

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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