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

Henrik Ibsen

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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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 secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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 your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth

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