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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
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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Mass Myself Subject
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
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
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift

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