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Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
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
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself

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