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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

Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet

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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