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Henrik Ibsen

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
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 strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right

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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