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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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

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