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

Henrik Ibsen

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
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
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 see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround

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