An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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