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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Henrik Ibsen

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
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand 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
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
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
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
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 great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

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