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Henrik Ibsen

A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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

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