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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task

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