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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
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
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
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
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

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

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