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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
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

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