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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Henrik Ibsen

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong

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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