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

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
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
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
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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 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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage

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