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

Henrik Ibsen

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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself

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