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.
HENRIK IBSENDo 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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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The devil is compromise.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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