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

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man 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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle

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

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