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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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
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
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself

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