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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

Henrik Ibsen

I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
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
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
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
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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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try

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