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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

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