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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Henrik Ibsen

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
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society 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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves

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