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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
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
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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

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