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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve

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