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

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
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
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
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

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