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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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