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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

Henrik Ibsen

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
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
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

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