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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.

Henrik Ibsen

There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
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
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing

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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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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