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It is no use lying to one’s self.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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 no use lying to one’s self.

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