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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Henrik Ibsen

Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
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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Children Fake Home Lying School
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage

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