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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

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side 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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

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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