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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory

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