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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Henrik Ibsen

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSEN

Cruel Myself Touch
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
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
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

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