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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

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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 greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
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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Mass Myself Subject
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong

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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