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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen

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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
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
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
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
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
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

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

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