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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

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing

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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