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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

Henrik Ibsen

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
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
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant 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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship

Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

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