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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSEN

Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSEN

Count Society 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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSEN

Act Courage Known Possible Release
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSEN

Marriage Mindset Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
HENRIK IBSEN

Close Live Myself Relate Writing
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSEN

Hustle Moaning Myself
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Children Fake Home Lying School
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSEN

Life Yourself
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
HENRIK IBSEN

Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
HENRIK IBSEN

Desire Impossible Willing
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSEN

Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong

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