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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Henrik Ibsen

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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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 great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility

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