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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
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To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.