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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred

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