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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
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
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
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
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

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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