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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSEN

Right Side Yourself
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
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 sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
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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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSEN

Count Society Yourself
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution

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