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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen

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
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing 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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
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
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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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing

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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